New York, June 18, 2009--A journalist in

New York, June 18, 2009--A journalist in
A French judge on
Tuesday authorized an
anti-corruption group to pursue a complaint that questions how the leaders of three
oil-rich, central African nations amassed their personal assets. One byline was
absent in news media coverage: Bruno Ossébi, an online Congolese columnist and one
of the few local journalists who had covered the sensitive issue. Ossébi died
in February in a mysterious fire that destroyed his home and killed three
others.Bruno Jacquet Ossébi, a Franco-Congolese journalist known for outspoken coverage of government corruption in the
Your Excellency, The Committee to Protect Journalists urges you as chairman of the African Union to discuss with your fellow heads of state and government at your summit in the Gambian capital, Banjul, from July 1, the need to defend press freedom on the continent.
Could you pick out Equatorial Guinea on the world map? Or Turkmenistan, or Eritrea? Probably not at the first attempt. These countries are usually below the radar of the international media, and the autocrats who run them like it that way. It helps them crush press freedoms and keep their population in the dark. That is why the Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based press freedom group, has drawn up a league table of the world's 10 most censored countries. We hope that the list, issued on World Press Freedom Day, will shine a light into the dark corners of the world where governments and their political cronies decide what people will read, see, and hear.
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