Afriques en Lutte

Press freedom group condemns Ethiopian journalist's prison conditions

Committee to Protect Journalists — 2013-05-06T03:18:00Z

His Excellency Berhan Hailu
Minister of Justice
P.O. Box 1370
Addis Ababa Ethiopia
Dear Minister Birhan Hailu,
We are writing to bring to your attention the case of Ethiopian journalist and teacher Reeyot Alemu, whose health has deteriorated since her imprisonment in June 2011 on terrorism charges and who is now being threatened with solitary confinement. The Ethiopian Ministry of Justice has publicly subscribed to a vision in which "human and democratic rights are respected," yet (…)

- Ethiopie / Liberté de la presse

In Ethiopia, "Feteh" editor jailed during trial

Committee to Protect Journalists — 2012-09-07T03:07:00Z

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 (…)

- Ethiopie / Liberté de la presse

Egypte : Two journalists attacked in Alexandria

Committee to Protect Journalists — 2012-05-08T11:33:00Z

Supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood assaulted two Egyptian journalists seeking to cover a public conference held on Tuesday in Alexandria by a presidential candidate of the brotherhood's political party, according to news reports.
"All journalists have a right to cover candidates in a democratic election," said Robert Mahoney, CPJ's deputy director. "We strongly condemn this attack on journalists who were just trying to do their job."
About 10 Muslim Brotherhood supporters attacked (…)

- Egypte / Election, Religion

Angola : Journalist fined and given one-year suspended prison sentence

Committee to Protect Journalists — 2011-10-28T02:27:00Z

An Angolan judge handed a suspended prison term and a fine to the editor of an independent newspaper on Monday in connection with stories that alleged corruption and abuse of power by five senior officials close to President José Eduardo Dos Santos, according to news reports and local journalists.
Judge Manuel Pereira da Silva convicted William Tonet, editor of the private weekly Folha 8, of criminal libel and sentenced him to a year in prison, suspended for two years, and a fine of 10 (…)

- Angola / Liberté de la presse

Soudan : Contrived legal proceedings mounted against journalists

Committee to Protect Journalists — 2011-07-26T02:15:00Z

The Sudanese government continues to aggressively target individual journalists and publications through contrived legal proceedings, politicized criminal charges, and confiscations, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
Prison authorities informed Abu Zir al-Amin, deputy editor of the now-defunct opposition daily Rai al-Shaab, that he would not be freed on July 3 as scheduled but instead transferred to the custody of State Security Prosecution for further investigation, family (…)

- Soudan / Répression, Liberté de la presse

Guinée équatoriale : Authorities delete German TV crew's footage

Committee to Protect Journalists — 2011-07-05T02:45:00Z

The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the detention of a German television crew and the destruction of their footage by authorities in Equatorial Guinea.
On Saturday, plainclothes state security agents led by Teobaldo Nchaso Matomba, the director of the state-controlled broadcaster TVGE, arrested reporter Jorg Brase, cameraman Michael Berger, camera assistant Stanley Oriaro, and their fixer (identified only as "Robert") while they were filming a concert at the French cultural (…)

- Guinée équatoriale / Liberté de la presse