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Eritrea – Issaias Afeworki – no less dangerous than Muammar Gaddafi or Bashar al-Assad
Ten years ago, on 18 September 2001, the entire world’s eyes were still turned to New York, the target of Al Qaeda’s devastating attacks the previous week. In Asmara, the Eritrean government took advantage of this distraction to launch a brutal political purge. “To the international community’s indifference, several ministers and former generals and all the newspaper editors were thrown in jail in the space of a week,” Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Jean-François Julliard said. (…)
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Rwanda – Reporters Without Borders demonstrates against President Kagame’s visit to Paris
A score of Reporters Without Borders activists demonstrated outside the Hotel Ritz in Paris at 8 a.m. today in protest against Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s visit to France. Kagame was due to have breakfast with a delegation of French businessmen in the hotel this morning. Wearing red gags to symbolize violations of freedom of expression in Rwanda, the demonstrators brandished umbrellas with the words “Kagame predator” and placards saying “Kagame predator in Paris!” and “France – Rwanda, no (…)
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Ethiopia – Two Swedish and three Ethiopian journalists charged with terrorism
Reporters Without Borders condemns the charges of “terrorist activities” which, according to Ethiopian government spokesman Shimeles Kemal yesterday, were brought against Swedish journalists Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye of the Kontinent news agency when they appeared before an Addis Ababa court on 6 September. Two Ethiopian journalists – Wubeshet Taye, the deputy editor of the weekly Awramba Times, and Reyot Alemu, a columnist for the Amharic-language weekly Fitih – were also formally (…)
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Côte d’Ivoire – Open letter to Ouattara asking him to intercede on behalf of imprisoned journalist
Reporters Without Borders wrote to President Alassane Ouattara today asking him to help obtain the provisional release of Hermann Aboa, a journalist with state-owned Radio-Télévision Ivoirienne (RTI) who has been detained since 21 July. The organization is worried about the conditions in which Aboa has been held since his transfer to Abidjan’s main prison. The text of the letter follows: President Alassane Ouattara Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire Paris, 6 September 2011 Dear President Ouattara, (…)
Somalia – Malaysian cameraman shot dead in Mogadishu, another wounded
Reporters Without Borders is saddened to learn that Noramfaizul Mohd Nor, a visiting Malaysian cameraman working for Bernama TV, sustained a fatal gunshot injury to the chest today at Mogadishu’s “Kilometre 4” intersection while travelling in a car behind the vehicle of the Malaysian humanitarian organization Putera 1Malasyai Club. It was not immediately clear how Nor came to be shot but his TV station said he was the victim of an insurgent attack on a government truck. Another Malaysian (…)
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Democratic Republic of Congo – Death threats against Journalist in Danger’s two leaders
Reporters Without Borders is deeply shocked by the death threats received by the president of Journalist in Danger, Donat M’Baya Tshimanga, and its secretary-general, Tshivis Tshivuadi. Journalist in Danger (JED) is the Reporters Without Borders partner organization in the Democratic Republic Congo. An email message with the subject line “Jed-Afrique: Attention Monsieur” was sent at 13:44 on 26 August to jedkin@jed-afrique.org from patriote@gmail.com, an address registered to someone called (…)
