Turkish Journalists Assaulted in Winneba

Police personnel deployed to maintain order at the Aboakyir festival, in Winneba, assaulted two members of a Turkish television crew, ostensibly for filming their armoured vehicles and riot gear.

The officers turned on and badly beat the journalists after they refused an order to stop filming the police equipment. The Turkish journalists were realesed after being kept in custody at the Winneba Police station.

There were subsequent attempts to silent them by the local head of police