State-owned television in Equatorial Guinea has been banned from broadcasting the crimes against humanity trial of Ivory Coast's former President Laurent Gbagbo, at the International Criminal Court, the AFP news agency reports.
The ban had been imposed because of Mr Gbagbo's "friendship" with Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang Nguema, and because of the principle of "non-intervention in another country's internal affairs", an unnamed state media official is quoted as saying.
The RTNGE network in Spanish is watched by around 85% of the population, AFP reports.
Critics accuse Mr Obiang, who has been in power since 1979, of being one of Africa's most repressive rulers.
Mr Gbagbo is the first former head of state to be tried by the ICC.
The charges against him are linked to post-election violence in Ivory Coast in 2010-2011.
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