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General news for Saturday, October 17, 2020
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
2020-10-17
Whatsup News Editor David Tamakloe
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on the Ghanaian authorities to urgently drop all charges against Whatsup News editor David Tamakloe.
The nonprofit organization noted that Mr. Tamakloe was arrested on a false charge.
CPJ’s Africa Program coordinator from New York, Angela Quintal, has called for an end to what she called “intimidation of journalists” in the country.
He noted that “the Ghanaian authorities must ensure that the criminal charge against journalist David Tamakloe is dropped and that he is allowed to work freely.”
Adding: “The Ghanaian police have a pattern of trying to intimidate journalists, which must end.”
According to previous reports, some of the Ghana Police Service staff detained Mr. Tamakloe after refusing to comply with a police invitation on the back of a post on his website.
But, in a news item from the Committee to Protect Journalists, David Tamakloe in a telephone interview indicated that “the agents assured that they had an arrest warrant and showed him a paper from a distance, but they did not allow him to read it.” the officers took him to the nearby Tenaso police station, before handcuffing him and driving him for six hours to another police station in New Edubiase, a district of the Ashanti region, where he was detained overnight and released on bail on October 8 10,000 cedis ($ 1,721) bond and two bonds “.
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