2007

New York, March 12, 2007—A private radio station in the central town of Markala was given an eviction notice by authorities last week, after airing broadcasts critical of President Amadou Toumani Touré ahead of next month’s elections. Radio Jamakan, housed in the government-owned complex of Office du Niger (ON), an agency managing irrigation projects, was…

MARCH 11, 2007 Posted March 21, 2007 Tsvangirai Mukwazhi, Freelance Tendai Musiyu, Freelance ATTACKED, HARASSED Photojournalist Mukwazhi and television producer Musiyu were stopped by police while driving to cover a gathering of the opposition MDC party in the capital Harare, Mukwazhi later told CPJ. The journalists were ordered to exit their car and lie face…

New York, March 8, 2007— A court in the capital Nairobi convicted Mburu Muchoki, editor of the private weekly The Independent, of libel on Tuesday and sentenced him to a year in prison over a 2004 story critical of Justice Minister Martha Karua, according to local journalists. Muchoki was also fined 500,000 shillings (US$7,200)—twenty-five times…

March 7, 2007 POSTED March 16, 2007 Lambert Kasereka Sekera, RTNC Norbert Kambalé, RTNC Radio Télévision Graben HARASSED Kasereka and Kambalé, hosts of a morning news show on state-run broadcaster Radio Télévision Nationale Congolaise (RTNC) in the eastern town of Butembo in the North Kivu province, were arrested in their studio during a broadcast critical…

New York, March 6, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists called on Liberia’s Supreme Court to rescind a ban on private bi-weekly The Independent. The paper filed an appeal with the court on grounds that the government violated Liberia’s constitution when it revoked their license and closed its offices after the paper’s February 20 and February…

New York, March 5, 2007—Four journalists of a leading independent daily in the northern breakaway republic of Somaliland were sentenced to prison on Sunday, and their paper’s publication license indefinitely revoked over stories critical of President Dahir Rayale Kahin, according to the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) and news reports. Haatuf publisher Yusuf Abdi…

MARCH 27, 2007 Posted April 27, 2007 Minyanya Wasso, Radio Liberté HARASSED Five armed police officers stormed the studios of private Radio Liberté in the far eastern Sud Kivu province, arresting a journalist airing a live program and causing the station to go off the air for 30 minutes, Director Philemon Kangeta told CPJ.

March 2, 2007 Posted March 29, 2007 Martin Dlamini, Times of Swaziland Nhlanhla Mathunjwa, Times of Swaziland THREATENED Managing editor Dlamini and reporter Mathunjwa of the leading independent daily Times of Swaziland in the central commercial town of Manzini were threatened with death by Catholic pastor Justice Dlamini over a story critical of the pastor,…

New York, March 2, 2007 —The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed that authorities in the capital, Libreville, have suspended a satirical newspaper for three months, apparently after it published commentary critical of President Omar Bongo, according to news reports and local journalists. The official National Communications Council (CNC) suspended the private bimonthly Edzombolo on…