Chad / Africa

  

CPJ protests attack on journalist

Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply troubled by the recent assault on Tchanguis Vatankhah, director of the privately owned Radio Brakos, which is based in the southern town of Moissala.

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Petition to Free Joshua

A partial list of people who have signed a petition to release the Eritrean journalist Fesshaye “Joshua” Yohannes. Go to the petition page and add your name. Or return to Free Joshua page.

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Special Reports

Below is a list of some of the people who have signed the petition to free Joshua

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Free Joshua Petition Names

Fesshaye “Joshua” Yohannes is being held in a secret location in Eritrea.

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Attacks on the Press 2002: Africa Analysis

Although the Kenya-based East African Standard, one of Africa’s oldest continuously published newspapers, marked its 100th anniversary in November, journalism remains a difficult profession on the continent, with adverse government policies and multifaceted economic woes still undermining the full development of African media.

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Attacks on the Press 2002: Chad

After three years, Chad’s bloody civil war ended in January, when the government of President Idriss Déby signed a peace accord with the rebel Movement for Democracy and Justice (MDJT). A month later, Parliament adopted a law granting MDJT members amnesty.

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Attacks on the Press 2002: Ivory Coast

Hopes were high in July that Ivory Coast’s political crisis would end after a judge in the capital, Abidjan, confirmed that former prime minister Alassane Dramane Ouattara, the leader of the opposition Rally for Republicans (RDR), is an Ivory Coast citizen.

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Two reporters jailed and ordered to quit journalismLeading independent newspaper banned for three months

New York, February 10, 2003—The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) deplores last week’s decision sentencing of two journalists to prison. On Thursday, February 6, a court in the capital, N’Djamena, convicted Nadjikimo Bénoudjita, the publisher of the private weekly Notre Temps, and Mbainaye Bétoubam, an editor at the paper, of criminal defamation and sentenced each…

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Attacks on the Press 2001: Chad

President Idriss Deby began the year with bad news. On January 2, the rebel Movement for Democracy and Justice (MDJT) announced that it had killed the head of Deby’s security team, General Kerim Nassour, and his aide, Colonel Fadoul Allamine. The next day, Deby was heard on state radio pleading with the MDJT to end…

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Attacks on the Press 2000: Chad

ALL YEAR, FIGHTING RAGED BETWEEN GOVERNMENT TROOPS and the rebel Movement for Democracy and Justice (MDJT) in the mountainous Tibesti region. But because of restrictions on the press, there was little news from the battlefront. International reporters were barred from Tibesti all year, according to the BBC. Chad’s independent media, clustered in the southern capital…

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