Outcry over Timor-Leste vendor attack, media curbs as pope visits

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Press freedom advocates, journalists and street vendors have criticized Timor-Leste police for clearing stalls and detaining a reporter ahead of Pope Francis's landmark visit.

Footage emerged last week of a police operation to remove street vendors in an area where Pope Francis was set to travel in Dili."They were brutal, wearing face masks like ninjas. Suddenly they attacked our stalls. I couldn't do anything about it because they came with the police," second-hand clothes seller Januario Soares, 40, told AFP on Sept. 9.

Police subsequently detained local reporter Antonieta Kartono Martins for four hours and took the phone of another journalist, Suzana Cardoso, deleting her footage of the vendor clearance. , journalists should never have to face obstruction or arrest for covering events of public interest," Cedric Alviani of Reporters Without Borders said in a statement on Sept. 9.

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