ABIDJAN - Ivory Coast's National Press Council has ordered a two-week suspension from publication of six newspapers that support former president Laurent Gbagbo, it said.
The CNP accused the papers of publishing pictures of Gbagbo and those close to him, who are now in jail, with banned captions detailing the ministerial posts some of these aides had been given during a post-electoral crisis between December 2010 and April 2011.
Gbagbo was defeated in the November 2010 elections by Alassane Ouattara, but refused to step down. He went on to name his own ministers, triggering a showdown that claimed some 3000 lives before he was arrested.
He is currently in prison at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, where he faces crimes against humanity charges.
The suspensions were made on Wednesday. None of the papers - Le Temps,Aujourd'hui, Le Nouveau Courrier, Lg Info,Le Quotidien d'Abidjanand L'Alternative - were on the newsstands yesterday.
Six Ivorian papers suspended
ABIDJAN - Ivory Coast's National Press Council has ordered a two-week suspension from publication of six newspapers that support former president Laurent Gbagbo, it said.
The CNP accused the papers of publishing pictures of Gbagbo and those close to him, who are now in jail, with banned captions detailing the ministerial posts some of these aides had been given during a post-electoral crisis between December 2010 and April 2011.
Gbagbo was defeated in the November 2010 elections by Alassane Ouattara, but refused to step down. He went on to name his own ministers, triggering a showdown that claimed some 3000 lives before he was arrested.
He is currently in prison at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, where he faces crimes against humanity charges.
The suspensions were made on Wednesday. None of the papers - Le Temps,Aujourd'hui, Le Nouveau Courrier, Lg Info,Le Quotidien d'Abidjanand L'Alternative - were on the newsstands yesterday.
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