Zambia / Africa

  

Editor charged with defaming president

New York, August 21, 2001 — Fred M’membe, editor-in-chief of the independent Zambian daily The Post, was arrested today and charged with criminal defamation of the head of state, an offence under Article 69 of Zambia’s Penal Code. He was released after posting bail. The charges stem from an article and an editorial in the…

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Chiluba government cracks down on press as elections near

Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply disturbed by a recent string of press freedom abuses in Zambia, and by your government’s increased monitoring of state-funded media. Given the hostile climate that local journalists now face, we have little confidence that they will be able to work effectively during the run-up to general elections scheduled for later this year.

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Attacks on the Press 2000: Zambia

AS TENSIONS WITH NEIGHBORING ANGOLA MOUNTED and politicians maneuvered to prepare for elections in 2001, Zambian journalists faced censorship, physical assault by police, and a host of repressive media laws. The most egregious attack on the independent press during the year was the trial of eleven journalists from the Lusaka daily The Post on charges…

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ANGOLAN JOURNALIST FOUND DEAD IN ZAMBEZI RIVER

Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in ZAMBIA New York, October 3, 2000 — An Angolan journalist who disappeared during a media tour of refugee camps in western Zambia was found dead early today in the Zambezi River near the town of Senanga, according to Zambian police authorities quoted in international news…

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Zambia: Government pursues espionage case against Post journalists

Your Excellency, The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply concerned about the current climate for press freedom in Zambia. We condemn recent hostile statements made by government officials against the local media, and we are particularly disturbed by the ongoing espionage trial of eleven journalists from the independent daily newspaper The Post.

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Attacks on the Press 1999: Zambia

Zambia continued to be one of southern Africa’s worst press freedom offenders. Under the repressive government of President Frederick Chiluba, local journalists faced illegal and arbitrary detention, abuses of the judicial process, and a dearth of proper media laws. A severe crackdown on Zambia’s biggest independent newspaper, The Post, came in the context of increasingly…

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Twelve journalists charged with espionage in Zambia

Your Excellency, The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is dismayed to learn that twelve journalists with the independent daily newspaperThe Post have been summoned to appear in the High Court in Lusaka on November 1 on charges of espionage.

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Zambian Government Lashes Out at The Post, Arrests Six Journalists

  New York, N.Y., March 10, 1999 — The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) today issued a strongly worded condemnation of the Zambian government’s crackdown on The Post, now in the second day of a full-scale assault stemming from the Lusaka-based independent daily’s publication on Tuesday of an article questioning the country’s military preparedness. Zambian…

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Zambian Government Lashes Out at The Post

March 10, 1999 His Excellency President Frederick Chiluba State House Independence Avenue Lusaka, Zambia Your Excellency, The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) writes to strongly condemn the arrests of Ms. Lubasi Mwangala Katundu, Joe Kaunda, Goodson Machona, Amos Malupenga, Brighton Phiri, and Kelvin Shimo, reporters for the independent daily newspaper The Post, and the current…

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Nigeria’s Journalists Eye Abubakar with Skepticism

Dangerous Assignments

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