Their warning was immediately suppressed.Guezouma Sanogo, who wasrecently re-elected to head the Association of Journalists of Burkina Faso (AJB) on 21 March, and who is also a journalist withRadio Télévision du Burkina (RTB), used the association's Extraordinary Congress to denounce the junta's “total stranglehold” on the country’s public media, which have been transformed into propaganda tools. The AJB also described the attacks on freedom of expression and freedom of the press since the junta came to power as “unprecedented.” The authorities were quick to react.
Barely three days later, on the morning of 24 March, individuals claiming to be police from the intelligence service arrested Guezouma Sanogo andBoukari Ouoba, an investigative journalist and vice-president of AJB, at the Norbert Zongo National Press Centre (CNP-NZ) in Ouagadougou, the capital, before taking them to an unknown destination.