Thomas and Pierre are two French reporters. Al-Hassane was their driver. On Dec. 17th, they were arrested as they were heading back to Niamey, after a report they have shot clandestinely (a previous official application was rejected) on the Tuareg rebellion movement, called MNJ, in northern Niger.
As well as Moussa Kaka, the RFI correspondent in Niger arrested three months earlier, they spent Christmas in jail. Ibrahim Manzo Diallo, another local journalist, was arrested last October, also for reporting on the Tuareg rebels.
Thomas and Pierre were wharged for attempt to the State security -a crime in Niger, for which they could face death penalty.
You can follow up the case on pierre.thomas.alhassane.info/.
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