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Media & freedom of expression
RSS FeedMalawi: Plunge in press freedom rating
2012-01-31, Issue 568
Malawi has dropped 67 places on the 2011/2012 press freedom index as a result of the 'totalitarian tendencies' of President Bingu wa Mutharika, French based media watchdog Reporters Without Boarders (RWB) has said. Malawi is now at position 146 along...
South Africa: Press freedom hearings to resume
2012-01-31, Issue 568
Several political parties, including the DA and ANC, are expected to make representations to the Press Freedom Commission (PFC), when it resumes hearings. Monday 30 January marked the start of the latest and final round of hearings on how best to reg...
South Africa: Cosatu attacks 'capitalist' press
2012-02-01, Issue 568
Cosatu has mirrored the ANC's offensive on the print media faithfully, finding that the three major newspaper groups 'reflect the outlook and prejudices of the capitalist class' and backing calls for tougher regulation of the press. In a six-page sub...
Zimbabwe: Artists continue work despite extrajudicial threats
2012-02-01, Issue 568
Zimbabwean artists operate in one of the most politically repressive environments in the world. But despite the monumental challenges, art continues to thrive here as artists say they are determined to shape the future of the country by expressing th...
Egypt: Egyptians continue sit-in to protest pro-junta media outlet
2012-02-02, Issue 568
Egyptians have continued a sit-in outside the country's state TV building to protest the media's pro-junta programs, calling for the purging of the state media from anti-revolutionary officials, Press TV reports. The protesters believe that even afte...
Ghana: Radio static for Ghana’s community stations
2012-02-02, Issue 568
Members of the Ghana Community Radio Network (GCRN) and the Coalition for Transparency of the Airwaves (COTA) have demanded that government answer to the limited frequency allocation being given to community radio stations. Across the country, there ...
Djibouti: Radio journalist threatened and tortured for 24 hours
2012-02-06, Issue 568
Reporters Without Borders has roundly condemned radio journalist Farah Abadid Hildid’s abduction by the police and the threats and torture to which he was subjected during the 24 hours he was held. Hildid works for La Voix de Djibouti, a radio statio...
Global: Twitter policy that restricts tweets sparks outrage
2012-02-06, Issue 568
Twitter announced last week that it would begin restricting tweets in specific countries if they violated local laws, setting off claims of censorship by IFEX members Reporters Without Borders (RSF), Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) and the Egy...
Sierra Leone: Police violently assault radio journalist
2012-01-26, Issue 567
Allieu Sesay, a broadcast journalist working with Freetown-based Radio Democracy, was reportedly assaulted on 15 January 2012 and briefly detained by some policemen drawn from the Operation Support Division (OSD) of the Sierra Leonean police. Sesay m...
Egypt: Blogger Maikel Nabil Sanad freed after being held for 10 months
2012-01-26, Issue 567
Reporters Without Borders says it welcomes blogger Maikel Nabil Sanad's release late on 25 January under an amnesty announced on 21 January for around 2,000 civilians who had been convicted by military courts during the past year. Sanad, who had been...
Uganda: Uganda drops in press freedom ranking
2012-01-26, Issue 567
Alleged brutality by security forces against journalists and proposed draconian legislation against newspapers have plunged Uganda 43 places lower in the latest press freedom ranking by the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF). The Press Freed...
Nigeria: IFJ condemns killing of Nigerian journalist
2012-01-26, Issue 567
The press freedom watchdog, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), Tuesday 24 January condemned the killing of Nigerian journalist, Enenche Akogwu, in Kano, northern Nigeria. According to IFJ, Enenche, a reporter with the privately-owned ...
Somalia: Radio journalist gunned down in Mogadishu
2012-01-30, Issue 567
Gunmen in Somalia have shot dead the director of a major radio station in front of his home in Mogadishu, colleagues and witnesses said. Hassan Osman Abdi, who headed Radio Shabelle, was stopped by two men as he was entering his gate on Saturday. He ...
Tunisia: Call for protection of journalists
2012-01-17, Issue 566
On the anniversary of the revolution, the International Freedom of Expression Exchange Tunisia Monitoring Group (IFEX-TMG), a coalition of 21 IFEX members, urges the Tunisian government to revoke its recent controversial appointments giving media per...
Sudan: Two private newspapers closed
2012-01-18, Issue 566
Within the past two weeks, two independent and opposition newspapers, Alwan and Rai al-Shaab, have been closed by security forces without explanation. 'These latest two newspaper closures show the government of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has yet...
Somalia: Media crackdown condemned
2012-01-19, Issue 566
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the arrest of 25 journalists in Somaliland recently, accusing the authorities of waging a campaign of intimidation to silence independent reporting. Reports say that 21 journalists were ...
Senegal: Journalists given suspended prison term
2012-01-23, Issue 566
Two Senegalese journalists with the private daily Le Quotidien have been handed suspended prison sentences in a criminal libel case over their coverage of an armed insurgency in a separatist province, according to the New York-based media watchdog, C...
Ethiopia: Blogger, journalists convicted of terrorism
2012-01-23, Issue 566
Two journalists and a US-based blogger who was tried in absentia were convicted on charges of terrorism in Ethiopia recently and could be sentenced to the death penalty, according to news reports. Reeyot Alemu, a columnist with the independent weekly...
South Africa: Remembering Henry Nxumalo, pioneer under apartheid
2012-01-09, Issue 565
Just over 55 years ago, on New Year's Eve 1957, trailblazing South African journalist Henry Nxumalo was murdered while investigating suspicious deaths at an abortion clinic in Sophiatown, a suburb west of Johannesburg. Nxumalo's short-lived journalis...
Côte d'Ivoire: Body found may be missing reporter
2012-01-10, Issue 565
Investigators in Ivory Coast have unearthed a body which they say may belong to Franco-Canadian journalist Guy-Andre Kieffer, who went missing in country's economic capital Abidjan in 2004, his brother told France 3 television. The team of French and...
Ethiopia: Standing with Ethiopia's tenacious blogger, Eskinder Nega
2012-01-16, Issue 565
It would be hard to find a better symbol of media repression in Africa than Eskinder Nega. The veteran Ethiopian journalist and dissident blogger has been detained at least seven times by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's government over the past two dec...
South Africa: #ANC100 debate lays bare divisions over South Africa media
2012-01-16, Issue 565
On 8 January 1912, South African intellectuals - including pioneering black newspaper publishers Pixley ka Isaka Seme, editor of Abantu-Batho, and John Langalibalele Dube, editor of Ilanga lase Natal - formed Africa's oldest liberation movement, the ...
Rwanda: Proposed media law fails to safeguard free press, says Article 19
2012-01-16, Issue 565
A revised media law promised by the Rwandan government prior to and during its Universal Periodic Review at the UN Human Rights Council in 2011 fails to safeguard the right to freedom of expression and a free media, says Article 19. The State retains...
Global: Call for UN action over journo deaths
2012-01-16, Issue 565
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has urged the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to take drastic action against governments of the most dangerous countries for media after it published its annual list of 106 journalists an...
South Africa: Secrecy bill concerns remain
2011-12-13, Issue 563
Despite a range of progressive amendments made to the Protection of State Information Bill (widely known as the Secrecy Bill) over the past 18 months, the Right2Know campaign continues to be 'extremely concerned' about the broadness and harshness of ...
Egypt: Previously acquitted journalists now jailed in libel case
2011-12-14, Issue 563
The Arabic Network of Human Rights Information has rejected the ongoing detention of Fatima Al-Zahra and Sally Hassan, journalists from the newspaper Al-Fajr. Agouza Misdemeanor Court sentenced Al-Zahra and Hassan to two months and one month of impri...
Egypt: Concern over attacks on journalists
Letter sent to Prime Minister Kamal El Ganzory
2011-12-14, Issue 563
'The Committee to Protect Journalists is writing to bring to your attention the mounting press freedom violations in Egypt. Between November 19 and 24, we documented at least 35 cases of journalists who were attacked in Cairo and Alexandria when prot...
South Africa: Criminal probe targets AP, Reuters cameras on Mandela
2011-12-19, Issue 563
South African authorities have announced the launch of a criminal probe against international news agencies The Associated Press and Reuters for installing cameras outside the home of anti-Apartheid figure Nelson Mandela, according to news reports. '...
Algeria: Divisive media law passed
2011-12-20, Issue 563
Algeria's People's National Assembly passed a controversial new media law on 14 December, despite opposition from journalists and many politicians. Although the act does away with prison sentences for journalists, opens up the audio-visual sector to ...
Zimbabwe: Media monitors released by High Court
2011-12-20, Issue 563
Three staff members from the Media Monitoring Project of Zimbabwe (MMPZ) were finally set free on Friday by the High Court in Bulawayo. They had been arrested and detained two weeks ago. Fadzai December, Molly Chimhanda and Gilbert Mabusa were arrest...
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