Committee to Protect Journalist Ignace Sossou Convicted of False News in Benin
August 23, 2019
August 23, 2019
NEW YORK, Aug. 23 -- The Committee to Protect Journalists issued the following news:
The government of Benin should act to decriminalize press offenses, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today, after journalist Ignace Sossou was convicted of false news for reporting on corporate finances.
A court in Benin's largest city, Cotonou, on August 12 handed Sossou, a reporter with the privately owned Benin Web TV news website, a suspended sentence of one month imprisonm . . .
The government of Benin should act to decriminalize press offenses, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today, after journalist Ignace Sossou was convicted of false news for reporting on corporate finances.
A court in Benin's largest city, Cotonou, on August 12 handed Sossou, a reporter with the privately owned Benin Web TV news website, a suspended sentence of one month imprisonm . . .