Three editors in the Ivory Coast have been fined, and their newspaper has been suspended, because they refused to reveal their confidential sources.
Saint Claver Oula, Stéphane Guédé and Théophile Kouamouo, the editor-in-chief, publisher and managing editor respectively of the independent Le Nouveau Courrier were each fined about £6,300. The paper will be banned from publishing for two weeks.
The men, who have been in detention since 13 July, were convicted on a charge of "administrative theft". It concerns the publication of a leaked report on corruption in the cocoa and coffee industry.
Source: AllAfrica.com
