Comoros

Your Excellency:

The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply disturbed by an ongoing government ban on news programming on Radio Dzialandzé Mutsamudu (RDM), a popular, privately owned station based in Mutsamudu, capital of the semi-autonomous island of Anjouan.

Interior and Information Minister Djanffar Salim ordered the station on January 13 to suspend its news broadcasts indefinitely.

According to local sources, the order stemmed from a recent RDM interview with a doctor who defended a strike by the island's medical personnel. Prior to the interview, Anjouan's Health Minister had criticized the strike in comments aired on Anjouan's official broadcaster, Radio Télévision Anjouan.

JANUARY 13, 2005
Posted: February 4, 2005

Radio Dzialandzé Mutsamudu
CENSORED
Interior and Information Minister Djanffar Salim ordered the suspension of all news broadcasts on Radio Dzialandzé Mutsamudu (RDM), a popular, privately owned station based in Mutsamudu, capital of the semi-autonomous island of Anjouan.