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In March 2019, David Romero Ellner began serving a 10-year prison sentence on defamation charges, after being found guilty in 2016 of defaming a former Honduran prosecutor, Sonia Inez Gálvez Ferrani, in his reporting for Radio Globo on corruption allegations. The plaintiff in the case was also an attorney in an earlier case against Romero….
Cameroonian journalist Wawa Jackson Nfor was arrested in May 2018, and has been held in pretrial detention while facing charges of publishing secessionist information. He could face up to life in prison if convicted. Nfor worked for local broadcaster Abakwa FM before starting his own Facebook and text message-based news service, Wawanews, and contributing to…
Térence Mpozenzi, a photographer for independent Burundian online outlet Iwacu, is serving a 2.5-year prison sentence after she was convicted of attempting to undermine state security alongside three colleagues: broadcast reporter Christine Kamikazi, politics writer Agnès Ndirubusa, and English-language reporter Égide Harerimana. Police detained the Iwacu journalists, along with a driver Adolphe Masabarikiza, on October…
Égide Harerimana, an English-language reporter for independent Burundian online outlet Iwacu, is serving a 2.5-year prison sentence after she was convicted of attempting to undermine state security alongside three colleagues: broadcast reporter Christine Kamikazi, politics writer Agnès Ndirubusa, and photojournalist Térence Mpozenzi. Police detained the Iwacu journalists, along with a driver Adolphe Masabarikiza, on October…
Agnès Ndirubusa, a senior political reporter for independent Burundian online outlet Iwacu, is serving a 2.5-year prison sentence after she was convicted of attempting to undermine state security alongside three colleagues: broadcast reporter Christine Kamikazi, English-language reporter Egide Harerimana, and photojournalist Térence Mpozenzi. Police detained the Iwacu journalists, along with a driver Adolphe Masabarikiza, on…
Christine Kamikazi, a broadcast reporter for independent Burundian online outlet Iwacu, is serving a 2.5-year prison sentence after she was convicted of attempting to undermine state security alongside three colleagues: politics writer Agnès Ndirubusa, English-language reporter Egide Harerimana, and photojournalist Térence Mpozenzi. Police detained the Iwacu journalists, along with a driver Adolphe Masabarikiza, on October…
Mwanza, a writer and journalist, was detained under the Preservation of Public Security Act of 1960, accused of involvement with a failed coup attempt on October 28. He appeared in court on November 26, but was not charged. Mwanza then applied for a writ of habeas corpus, challenging the government to show cause why he…
A Haiphong city court sentenced online writer Nghien on January 29, 2010, to four years in prison and three years of house arrest on charges of spreading anti-state propaganda. She was arrested when more than 20 police officers raided her home during a September 2008 crackdown on dissidents. Nghien was originally charged with staging a…
Hoang Linh, editor of the state-run business newspaper Doang Nghiep, was arrested on charges of revealing state secrets. The charges were linked to articles he wrote that explored questionable practices of Vietnam’s General Customs Department in the purchase of coastal patrol boats. Local journalists said the arrest was interpreted as a warning to reporters to…
Dzhamshid Karimov, a freelance journalist and nephew of the late President Islam Karimov, has been detained in a psychiatric facility since January 2012, according to regional news sites and his family. Karimov, an outspoken critic of the Uzbek regime, was first placed unwillingly in a psychiatric ward in the city of Samarkand in September 2006….