XALIMANEWS: Scheduled for Monday, January 20, the press briefing convened by the Council of Broadcasters and Press Editors of Senegal (CDEPS) ultimately did not take place. The cause? CEDEPS was refused access to the Maison de la Presse. A new milestone in the strategy of the new authorities to muzzle the press, denounce Mamadou Ibra Kane and co. in a press release.
“This Monday, January 20, the Council of Broadcasters and Publishers of the Press of Senegal (CDEPS) was refused access to the Maison de la Presse, where it had summoned the national and international press to a press briefing on the media crisis in Senegal since the advent of the third political alternation of the regime of President Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar FAYE”, informs a press release signed Mamadou Ibra Kane, president of the said structure.
A first in history because according to the CDEPS, “Since its creation, a telephone call to the director of the structure gave access to the premises as long as it was a media organization. The Director of the Maison de la Presse, informed on Sunday morning and who promised to make the necessary arrangements, then organized his unreachability. »
Moreover, “The journalists, reporters and other media technicians, who came to cover the press briefing, were informed in the courtyard of the Maison de la Presse”, underlined the CDEPS notes to denounce a new milestone in the strategy new authorities to muzzle the press. For Mamadou Ibra Kane and co., “After the tax harassment, the unilateral suspension of conventions, the non-payment of services rendered, refusing access to journalists at the Maison de la Presse, which bears the name of Babacar Touré, is the height! »
-“Today, private media companies are all virtually bankrupt with colossal debts to their suppliers and some have closed. The social cost for media workers is very heavy in 303 days: elimination of hundreds of jobs, pharaonic salary arrears, non-contribution to social welfare institutions, poor medical coverage,” indicates the press employers, who announce that the press is hopeful that the appeals filed at the level of the Supreme Court will make it possible to overturn all the illegal decisions of the Minister of Communication.
As such, it is indicated, the CDEPS will continue to denounce attacks on press freedom and postpones its conference until Wednesday January 22, 2025, still at the Maison de la Presse.
with Sud Quotidien
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