- Organisation: La Voix de Djibouti broadcaster
- Case: Detention
- Culprit: Police Officers
- Country: Djibouti
- City: Balbala
On July 15, police in Balbala, a suburb of Djibouti City, the capital, arrested Charmarke Saïd Darar, a reporter with the Paris-based privately owned broadcaster, and held him without access to a lawyer until releasing him without charge on August 4, according to Darar, his lawyer Zakaria Abdillahi, and La Voix de Djibouti director Mohamoud Djama, all of whom spoke to CPJ via phone and messaging app.