Marco Boukoukou Boussaga

 UPDATE 

July 10, 2006
Original Protest Letter: December 23, 2003

L’Autre Journal
CENSORED

Gabon’s government-controlled media regulatory body, the National Council on Communications (CNC), ruled on June 22 to re-authorize the private bimonthly L’Autre Journal to publish, according to the state-owned daily L’Union. The decision came two and a half years after the paper was banned in December 2003 for articles that might “disturb public order.”

Your Excellency:

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) calls for a thorough, independent, and immediate investigation into the death of Marco Boukoukou Boussaga, editor-in-chief of the privately owned bimonthly newspaper L'Autre journal, based in the capital, Libreville.

According to local sources, Boussaga died in Libreville on the morning of December 15. His family members had brought him to a hospital when they found him spitting up blood after he spent the evening with friends in a suburb of the capital. The reasons for his death are unclear, but Boussaga had no prior medical problems, sources said.