THE managing editor of a newspaper in Congo has been arrested over an article calling for the overthrow of “the dictator” Denis Sassou Nguesso, police said late Saturday. Publication of Richard Ntsana’s Flambeau newspaper was also suspended on Saturday as Ntsana was taken to the central police station in Brazzaville for a “hearing,” police said in a statement. Le Flambeau published a new year’s greeting from ousted former president Pascal Lissouba in which he called on the Congolese to “mobilise to defeat the dictator”, referring to Sassou Nguesso, the general who overthrew him in a 1997 coup. Police said Ntsana was arrested for “an article that created confusion over state institutions.” The statement said: “Given the need to guarantee public order … police carried out a hearing of the managing editor of the newspaper Le Flambeau and took the precautionary measure of suspending the said newspaper, pending the administrative and legal ramifications of this affair.” – AFP