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Michelle Teise

Gender: Male
Online Journalist
  • Organisation: Moeladilotlhoko
  • Case: Detention
  • Culprit: Botswana police
  • Country: Botswana
  • City: Gaborone

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.

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