Senegal: Police rough up journalists covering protest

Reporters Without Borders condemns police use of violence against journalists covering a banned street march against cost of living increases in Dakar yesterday afternoon, and a police raid on a TV station that was broadcasting footage showing how police broke up the protest. “The security forces behaved in a manner unworthy of Senegalese democracy,” the press freedom organisation said. “Erasing pictures of clashes and preventing them being shown on TV is not an effective way of keeping order.