Ghana: Police assaults journalist
Samuel Ebo Bartels, Sports reporter of Citi FM, an Accra-based independent radio station was on June 1, 2008, violently attacked by a group of policemen deployed at the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi, Ghana's second largest city.
Ghana ALERT: Police assaults journalist
Samuel Ebo Bartels, Sports reporter of Citi FM, an Accra-based independent radio station was on June 1, 2008, violently attacked by a group of policemen deployed at the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi, Ghana's second largest city.
The incident occurred after a World Cup qualifying game between the Ghanaian national football team and their Libyan counterparts.
Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)'s correspondent reported that the policemen also prevented a number of journalists who had gone to the inner perimeter of the stadium from conducting interviews after the game.
Bartels told MFWA that he was shocked at the decision of the policemen and therefore queried them about it since he had accreditation to enter any department of the stadium.
The journalist said the policemen, numbering about four, charged on him and beat him mercilessly.
MFWA has learned that a photojournalist of the Ghana Football Association was also violently attacked by the policemen after photographing the attack on Bartels.
In the process Bartels lost his cellular phone.
Prof. Kwame Karikari
Executive Director
MFWA
Accra
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