The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) is calling for justice for a TV3 journalist who claimed he was abused by a soldier while on duty.
In a press statement signed by the president of the association, Affail Monney that contained the details of the assault, it contained that the said Journalist, Stanley Nii Blewu is a cameraman for the station who was reporting on the issue of sanitation at the Team Station in Accra Central.
The said soldier attacked Stanley for refusing to give his camera and phone that he used to take pictures of a clean up exercise that happened on Wednesday, 12 August 2020.
Stanley says that “he kicked my abdomen and left thigh multiple times, hit my right hand with heavy blows until my phone fell off and he grabbed it”.
He reports further that the abuse continued even at the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) when he followed the soldier for his items only to see him deleting the captured images.
The GJA has condemned the act and says it is “a barbaric infringement on press freedom guaranteed under the 1992 constitution”.
Mr. Monney reiterated that “the international community in general and human rights groups, in particular, have understandably sharpened their focus on Ghana.
He called on the military to launch immediate investigations into the matter and future acts should be “discouraged or punished to the fullest extent permissible within the law”.
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