On January 28, police in Phitshane outside Botswana’s capital Gaborone arrested Tshepo Sethibe and Michelle Teise, two reporters with Moeladilotlhoko, a privately-owned news outlet that publishes on Facebook, and four media workers with the company — media security specialist Gosego Phofusetso, then-security guard Tumelo Modise, and then-staff photographer Kenanao Karele, according to Sethibe, who also serves as Moeladilotlhoko’s director, and Obonetse Jonas, the company’s lawyer, who spoke to CPJ via messaging app.
© 2021 Africa Media Developmet Foundation. All Rights Reserved