Liberia bans journalists from Ebola centres
BY Agencies11 Oct 2014 1:08 AM GMT
Agencies11 Oct 2014 1:08 AM GMT
Liberia said on Friday it was banning journalists from Ebola clinics, defying media rights campaigners
who have warned panicked African governments against ‘muzzling’ reporters in response to the crisis.
Government spokesman Isaac Jackson made the announcement as he was questioned on a radio phone-in show about reporters being barred from covering a strike at a Monrovia Ebola treatment unit (ETU).‘Journalists are no longer allowed to enter ETUs. These journalists enter the ETUs and cross red lines,’ Jackson, the deputy information minister, told listeners to commercial station Sky FM.
‘They violate people’s privacy, take pictures that they will sell to international institutions. We are putting an end to that.’ Journalists had earlier been denied access to the Island Clinic in Monrovia to cover a nationwide ‘go slow’ day of action by healthcare workers demanding risk bonuses for treating Ebola.
who have warned panicked African governments against ‘muzzling’ reporters in response to the crisis.
Government spokesman Isaac Jackson made the announcement as he was questioned on a radio phone-in show about reporters being barred from covering a strike at a Monrovia Ebola treatment unit (ETU).‘Journalists are no longer allowed to enter ETUs. These journalists enter the ETUs and cross red lines,’ Jackson, the deputy information minister, told listeners to commercial station Sky FM.
‘They violate people’s privacy, take pictures that they will sell to international institutions. We are putting an end to that.’ Journalists had earlier been denied access to the Island Clinic in Monrovia to cover a nationwide ‘go slow’ day of action by healthcare workers demanding risk bonuses for treating Ebola.
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