Police visit to SN constitutes attack on press freedom – Shadow AG

Shadow Attorney General,  Roysdale Forde SC yesterday condemned what he said was the latest attack on press freedom based on a Stabroek News report that Minister in the Ministry of Public Works, Deodat Indar had instigated the visit of police to the newspaper’s premises.

Indar has denied the claim but Stabroek News has stood by its report.

In a statement yesterday Forde also called on media bodies and the international community “to condemn this latest attack on press freedom in Guyana and to urge the government to launch an investigation into the relationship between the Minister, Mr. Deodat Indar and Western Logistics Guyana Inc”.