Burkina Faso Suspends More Foreign Media Over Hrw Report

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Burkina Faso on Sunday suspended several more international news organizations, some of them for an indefinite period, over their coverage of a report accusing the army of extrajudicial killings, its communications regulator said.

This follows similar action last week, when Burkina Faso temporarily suspended the programs of Voice of America and BBC/ Africa following the broadcast of news stories about a Human Rights Watch report accusing the Burkinabe army of abuses against civilian populations.

The websites of Deutsche Welle, Le Monde and Ouest-France, The Guardian and African agencies APA and Ecofin have also been blocked until further notice, the CSC said."The killings ... have led to the opening of a judicial investigation," Ouedraogo told Reuters, citing a March 1 statement by a regional prosecutor.

In its broadcast of the story on the Human Rights Watch report, VOA sought reactions from several Burkinabe officials but did not receive any response. "Journalists in Burkina Faso should not have to contend with censorship by authorities in addition to challenges of reporting amid insecurity in the country," Rozen said.

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