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A week ago today, CPJ sent a letter
of concern to President Blaise
Compaoré of Burkina Faso urging his government to investigate a series
of death threats sent in the past year or so via e-mail to independent
journalists there. Using Yahoo
Well, Yahoo France and French police are now officially on
the case, according to Christophe Pelletier, a spokesman for Yahoo
"Within an hour of receiving the information, our legal
experts, who were out of the office at the time, were working remotely to
process this case," Pelletier told me. "We don't know if this is bogus or not,
but we are not taking any chances." He said it was a legal obligation for them
to notify the police whenever a user sends threats through their service.
According to Pelletier, Yahoo
For nearly two years now, since CPJ first uncovered e-mail
death threats sent to radio commentator Karim
Sama,
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