Burkina: 3 journalists arrested, HRW denounces media repression

Burkina Faso’s ruling military junta has arrested three prominent journalists, intensifying its crackdown on media freedom in the West African country, according to a Human Rights Watch report released Thursday.

Guezouma Sanogo and Boukari Ouoba , the president and vice-president of the Association of Journalists of Burkina Faso, and Luc Pagbelguem of the local television channel BF1, were arrested on Monday and their whereabouts are…