Djibouti: Detained reporter’s home searched, Facebook account hacked | Reporters without borders
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the methods used by the Djiboutian authorities to keep pressuring and intimidating a journalist held for the past three weeks, including searching his home and hacking into his Facebook account. A video filmed after the police searched Charmarke Saïd Darar’s home on 2 August shows the floor strewn with clothes and personal effects, an unplugged computer keyboard and empty wardrobes. It looks like the aftermath of a burglary and speaks to the level of persecution to which Darar and his family are being subjected. A reporter for La Voix de Djibouti (LVD), a radio station and Web TV run by Djiboutian exile journalists from a base in Belgium, Darar has been allowed no visits by his lawyer or family since his arrest on 15 July. His family saw him for the first time when the police brought him along, handcuffed, for the search. His sister told RSF he looked “weak” and as if he had eaten almost nothing since his arrest. The police seized all of his ID papers and journa
4 Aug 2020 ... Djibouti: Detained reporter's home searched, Facebook account hacked ... searching his home and hacking into his Facebook account. A video ...