Chad Arrests Journalist Over Government Criticism, Union Says
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Chadian authorities arrested a journalist who has criticized President Idriss Deby’s government, according to the central African country’s journalists union.
Eric Topona, the secretary-general of the Chadian Union of Journalists, was arrested today for causing “trouble to the constitutional order,” Abba Mahamat Moussa, the union’s president, said by phone from the capital, N’Djamena. The union was “troubled by the unexplained arrest,” he said. Topona’s father, Celestin, is the head of the opposition National Union for Development and Renewal party.