Guinea: Media unions suspend protests amid talks with media regulator

Guinea’s main media unions suspended Sunday December 10 a set of actions including media blackout scheduled for this Monday December 11 to give chances for success to ongoing talks with media regulator HAC that demanded French cable network Canal+ to suspend sine die three private media over security reasons.

URTELGUI, AGUIPEL, REMIGUI, AGEPI and AGPE issued a joint statement calling for their agreed joint move of December 04 to be shelved.

The five unions on December 04 slammed HAC that unilaterally instructed Paris-based Canal+ to suspend first Djoma Media and subsequently Évasion and Espace.

HAC argued that the three private media are posing a threat to security in the country.

Guinea has since September 2021 been under the rule of a junta. Many critics accuse the military force of not being willing to surrender the power to a civilian rule.

The main unions in a December 4 joint statement called for a set of actions including protests, sit-ins in front of HAC and declared December 11 a “day without media”.