Nigeria, Nov. 8 -- The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Nigerien authorities to free journalists Ibro Chaibou, Youssouf Seriba, and Oumarou Abou Kane who were remanded in southern Niger's Kollo prison on November 3.

The three were initially arrested on October 30 and are accused of sending an invitation to a government news conference to an exile who worked for ousted President Mohamed Bazoum.

On November 3, an investigating judge in the capital, Niamey, charged six journalists with "disseminating data likely to disturb public order," a cybercrime with a penalty of up to five years in jail, CPJ was told by their lawyer, Boudal Effred Mouloul, as well as two people with knowledge of the case, who spoke on condition of anonymity,...