Amnesty International condemns barring of media from Wits protests

JOHANNESBURG - Civil Rights NGO, Amnesty International, has condemned the barring of media from the Wits protests.

The NGO says watching the security guards manhandling journalists was disconcerting.

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Amnesty International's Mienke Steytler said, "we were extremely concerned when we saw that, we were watching this live and thought we had to react to this."

"There is a right to assembly… Press freedom is important and media should be allowed in campus to be able to document events."

"We were concerned.. I would love to know what the university was thinking when they asked the media to leave…. In our view, it’s completely unacceptable.”