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• Eritrea : A story of censorship
  30 novembre 2013

  In January 2002, Eritrean journalist Aaron Berhane ran to freedom across the Eritrean/Sudanese border, leaving behind his wife and three children in what is now considered to be one of the most censored countries in the world.
  “We were encountered by the patrolling army ; I had no choice but to flee to Sudan. And they did open fire. I don’t even know how I managed to flee,” says Berhane, describing the end of his escape from Eritrea.
  On September 18, 2001, Berhane’s independent newspaper (…)

• Soudan : Declaration from Almidan Editorial Board.
  22 février 2011, par Almidan Editorial Board

  Almidan is the working peoples Journal Almidan is the capaigaining paper against violation of freedoms and human rights Almidan is the journal of solidarity and cooperation For sometime now Almidan is being exposed to police harrasment.Almidan, as an independent forum, was and remains to be among the most critical papers towards the policies of the present regime.Almidan in all its work is strictly observing the transitional constitution which protect the freedom of expression (…)

• NUSOJ welcomes Amnesty International report on attacks against Somali journalists
  27 juillet 2010

  (NUSOJ/IFEX) - The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) welcomes Amnesty International’s latest publication on Somalia, which focuses on journalists’ working conditions in the country, under the title "Hard news : Journalists’ lives in danger in Somalia".
  The Amnesty report highlights explicitly the current dangerous and difficult situation in which Somali journalists find themselves, especially the attacks against journalists by both the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and (…)

• Radio journalist’s sentence galvanises call to end criminal defamation in Uganda
  27 octobre 2014, par HRNJ-Uganda

  Human Rights Network for Journalist-Uganda (HRNJ-Uganda) is deeply saddened by the sentencing of a Central Broadcasting Services (CBS) radio journalist Ronald Ssembuusi on 17 October 2014 by Kalangala Magistrate’s Court. Ssembuusi has been ordered to pay a fine of one million shillings [approximately USD $374.50] (UGX 500,000 to court and UGX 500,000 to the complainant) within one month from today or serve a jail term of one year. This is after the Grade 1 Magistrate, Kenneth Gimugum, (…)

• In Ethiopia, "Feteh" editor jailed during trial
  7 septembre 2012, par Committee to Protect Journalists

  Ethiopian authorities must immediately release Temesghen Desalegn, editor of the leading weekly Feteh, who was ordered jailed today pending his trial on defamation, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. The High Court judge deemed Temesghen a flight risk during his trial, which resumes on September 3, according to local journalists. Police summoned the journalist for questioning on August 1 and told him they were charging him over his articles published in seven editions of the (…)

• Ouganda : WBS TV journalist threatened with death while on assignment
  6 avril 2012, par HRNJ-Uganda

  Mulindwa Mukasa, a correspondent with local private television station Wavah Broadcasting Service (WBS) TV, was arrested at Nabweru Parents School, a private primary school, while following up a news story about the treatment of the pupils. Mulindwa is the Executive Board chairperson of Human Rights for Journalists-Uganda (HRNJ-Uganda).
  The school is located in Nabweru village, about 5 kilometers from the capital Kampala, in Nansana town council, Wakiso district. It is owned by Ronald (…)

• Sud Soudan : Independence has not brought freedom for press
  13 mai 2012, par Index on Censorship

  In November last year, Ngor Garang was illegally detained and repeatedly tortured for 18 days in South Sudan’s national security headquarters, located in the country’s interim capital, Juba. His crime : he was the chief editor for a newspaper that published a column criticizing the marriage of President Salva Kiir’s daughter to an Ethiopian national.
  In the wake of the incident, authorities shut the doors on Garang’s English-language daily Destiny. Six months on, Destiny remains out of (…)

• Ouganda : Journalist detained, assaulted by police
  23 avril 2011, par Human Rights Network for Journalists

  (HRNJ-Uganda/IFEX) - Kampala, 11 April 2011 - Journalist Ssemakula Bambalazabwe, of the Bukedde television station, was arrested and detained for 12 hours at the Mutundwe police post.
  Ssemakula was arrested on 9 April 2011 at 9pm while covering a scuffle at Kampala University’s Mutundwe campus between students and the university administration. The scuffle ensued after some of the students’ property had been thrown out of a building in a bid to create space for new foreign students.
  The (…)

• Ethiopie : Profile : Zone 9 bloggers
  16 octobre 2015

  The Zone 9 bloggers are a group of online activists dedicated to challenging corruption, upholding human rights and promoting government accountability in Ethiopia.
  In an interview with Sampsonia Way magazine, Soleyana Gebremichael, a co-founder of the Zone 9 blog who lives in exile, reflects on the work that she and her colleagues did prior to being charged :
  “You can’t stop doing what you are doing because it is not a crime….What we were doing and what we were asking was within our (…)

• Ouganda : Radio journalist shot by anti-riot police while covering opposition march
  18 mai 2011, par HRNJ-Uganda

  (HRNJ-Uganda/IFEX) - Kampala, 4 May 2011 - Anti riot police shot a radio Simba journalist, Christine Nabatanzi, with a rubber bullet. Nabatanzi, 24, was shot in the right leg while covering opposition Democratic Party (DP) supporters who were celebrating the release of their leader, Norbert Mao, on 2 May 2011.
  The wounded Nabatanzi covered the celebrations from Nakawa court, where Mr. Mao had been released unconditionally, after spending a fortnight in prison. Supporters walked towards (…)