2005

CPJ Update October 17, 2005 News from the Committee to Protect Journalists Return to front page | See previous Updates

OCTOBER 10-13, 2005 Posted October 13, 2005 Kifle Mulat, EFJA Taye Belachew, EFJA Habetamu Assefa, EFJA Sisay Agena, EFJA HARASSED Ethiopian police summoned and questioned the executive committee of the Ethiopian Free Press Journalists’ Association (EFJA), an independent organization that criticized a government crackdown on the press after opposition parties disputed the outcome of May…

New York, October 13, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists today condemned police harassment of the Ethiopian Free Press Journalists’ Association (EFJA), which criticized a government crackdown on the press after the opposition disputed the outcome of this year’s elections. Four EFJA leaders reported this week to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) in the capital, Addis…

New York, October 13, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the arrest of a newspaper publisher by Nigeria’s State Security Service (SSS). Owei Kobina Sikpi, publisher of the tabloid Weekly Star in the southern city of Port Harcourt, has been held without charge since Tuesday, the paper’s editor, Obinna Ahiaidu told CPJ. He…

OCTOBER 11, 2005 Posted October 17, 2005 Owei Kobina Sikpi, Weekly Star IMPRISONED Sikpi, publisher of the tabloid Weekly Star, was arrested by Nigeria’s State Security Service (SSS) in the southern city of Port Harcourt, and held without charge, the paper’s editor, Obinna Ahiaidu told CPJ. He said the arrest was over an article that…

New York, October 11, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists voiced alarm today at the savage beating of publication director Dimas Dzikodo, whose weekly Le Forum de la Semaine is strongly critical of Togolese authorities. Unidentified attackers knocked Dzilan from his motorcycle on Sunday in the capital Lomé and beat him, local sources told CPJ. They…

OCTOBER 9, 2005 Posted October 13, 2005 Dimas Dzikodo, Le Forum de la Semaine ATTACKED Dzikodo, publication director of the private weekly Le Forum de la Semaine, was brutally beaten in the capital, Lomé. His newspaper is strongly critical of Togolese authorities.

New York, October 4, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists is outraged that journalist Paul Kamara remains in jail in Sierra Leone a year after being convicted of “seditious libel” for articles criticizing President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah. Kamara was convicted on October 5, 2004, and sent to Pademba Road Prison in the capital, Freetown, to serve…

OCTOBER 3, 2005 Posted: December 8, 2005 Anderson Ojwang’, The East African Standard ATTACKED Baraka Karama, Kenya Television Network (KTN) HARASSED, THREATENED Ojwang’, a correspondent for the independent daily The East African Standard, was beaten by youths bearing whips and sticks while trying to cover a government-organized meeting in the western town of Kakamega. The…