Six journalists, including three media owners, have been arrested in the Ivory
 Coast for "spreading false information" about a mutiny by security forces, their newspapers and the public prosecutor said.
The move came after elite forces became the latest troops to protest over pay in
 recent weeks in the West African nation, firing into the air in the army barracks
 town of Adiake.
"Regarding recent action taken by the military ... we have come to believe that
 certain media organisations are spreading false information in a bid to encourage soldiers to revolt," said a statement from the public prosecutor broadcast on 
national television on Sunday.
The editor and owner of the independent dailies L'Inter and SoirInfo were
 arrested and held in a police camp in the capital Abidjan, along with the
 editors and owners of the opposition newspapers Le Temps and Notre Voie.
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The journalists will be questioned to "find out where responsibility lies" for
 the alleged false information, the prosecutor said.
They were arrested on suspicion of breaking the law which forbids inciting
 rebellion among the military, attacking state authority and publishing false
 information relating to defence and state security, the statement added.
The elite forces mutinied in Adiake, some 90km from Abidjan, between Tuesday
 and Thursday, but later "apologised to the authorities", according to a high-level
 military source.
Troops first launched a mutiny over pay on January 5.
Those protests subsided when the government reached a deal with 8,500
 mutineers, agreeing to give them 12 million CFA francs ($19,000) each.
However, more soldiers have since taken to the streets demanding similar bonuses.
Last year, Ivory Coast approved an ambitious military budget to modernise the
 army and buy new equipment.
But the $1.3bn pot would be insufficient to offer similar payments to all of the
 country's 23,000-strong security forces.
Source: News agencies