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On 1 June 2008, Samuel Ebo Bartels, sports reporter for Citi FM, an Accra-based independent radio station, was violently attacked by a group of police officers deployed at the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi, Ghana's second largest city. A photojournalist who took pictures of the attack was also beaten by the same police officers. The incident occurred after a World Cup qualifying game between the Ghanaian national football team and their Libyan counterparts. MFWA's correspondent reported that the police prevented a number of journalists who had gone to the inner perimeter of the stadium from conducting interviews after the game.

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