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  • Sierra Leonean rapper posts “obscene and dangerous” comments about journalist

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns a well-known Sierra Leonean rapper’s outrageously insulting and obscene comments on Facebook about a radio station director. Online harassment of journalists in Sierra Leone must stop, RSF says.

    In a video posted on Facebook on 11 December, Alhaji Amadu Bah, a popular but controversial rapper also known as LAJ, referred to Radio

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  • More reporters arrested in renewed crackdown in Ethiopia

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    Arrests of more journalists in recent weeks for their coverage of the 13-month-old civil war have confirmed the disastrous setback for press freedom seen in Ethiopia in 2021, says Reporters Without Borders (RSF), calling on the authorities to free detained journalists and end the harassment and restrictions to which they are being subjected.

    Amir Aman Kiyaro, a freelance video reporter who works for the Associated Press news agency, was arrested in the capital, Addis Ababa, on his return from a reporting trip

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  • Two Togolese newspaper editors jailed over comments during TV programme

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the release of two newspaper editors in Togo who have been jailed since 10 December for criticising government ministers. Following last July’s revelation that the Togolese authorities targeted several journalists for mobile phone surveillance, the arbitrary detention of these two journalists brings government media policy into further disrepute.


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  • CIJI awards 75.000 EUR to three regional media hubs to support ‘Collaborative and Investigative Journalism in Europe’

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    OBC Transeuropa from Italy, the Baltic Center for Investigative Journalism Re : Baltica from Latvia, and Fundacja Reporterow (FR) from Poland have been awarded a combined total of 75.000 EUR to enhance collaborative and investigative journalism in the Baltic States, Visegrád Four and Southern Europe.

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  • European Parliament backs RSF’s call for moratorium on arrests of journalists in Somalia

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    In a resolution on the human rights situation in Somalia adopted yesterday, the European Parliament has endorsed the call for a moratorium on arrests of journalists in Somalia that Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and its partner, the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ), issued more than a year ago and have been reiterating ever since.

    The resolution “deplores the recent attacks on journalists and media personnel” and “calls on the Somali authoritie

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  • Rwandan online video reporter given “absurd” seven-year-jail sentence

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the absurd and arbitrary seven-year prison sentence that Dieudonné Niyonsenga, the operator of an online TV channel called Ishema TV, has received from Rwanda’s high court as a result of an appeal by the prosecutor’s office against his acquittal at his initial trial. The authorities must stop persecuting online journalists, RSF says.

    Also known as Cyuma Hassan, Niyonsenga had enjoyed eight months of freedom after his initial acquittal before being returned to prison following the high court’s decision on 11 November to convict

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  • Targeted suicide bombing kills leading Somali journalist, badly injures another

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled by the targeted suicide bomb attack that killed a senior journalist and badly injured another in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on 20 November. The attack has been claimed by Al-Shabaab.

    Radio Mogadishu director Abdiaziz Mohamud Guled and Sharmarke Mohamed Warsame, the director of Somali National Television (SNTV), were travelling

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  • Rwandan online video reporter given “absurd” seven-year-jail sentence

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the absurd and arbitrary seven-year prison sentence that Dieudonné Niyonsenga, the operator of an online TV channel called Ishema TV, has received from Rwanda’s high court as a result of an appeal by the prosecutor’s office against his acquittal at his initial trial. The authorities must stop persecuting online journalists, RSF says.

    Also known as Cyuma Hassan, Niyonsenga had enjoyed eight months of freedom after his initial acquittal before being returned to prison following the high court’s decision on 11 Nov

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  • Rwandan online video reporter given “absurd” seven-year-jail sentence

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the absurd and arbitrary seven-year prison sentence that Dieudonné Niyonsenga, the operator of an online TV channel called Ishema TV, has received from Rwanda’s high court as a result of an appeal by the prosecutor’s office against his acquittal at his initial trial. The authorities must stop persecuting online journalists, RSF says.

    Also known as Cyuma Hassan, Niyonsenga had enjoyed eight months of freedom after his initial acquittal before being returned to prison following the high court’s decision on 11 Nov

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  • “Disproportionate and arbitrary” suspensions of two newspapers in Togo

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Togo’s media regulator, the High Authority for Broadcasting and Communication (HAAC), to rescind the disproportionate and arbitrary suspensions of two publications that it has ordered in the past month.

    The latest victim is La Symphonie, a bimonthly that has been banned from publishing for two months.

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  • Freedom of expression under siege after military coup in Sudan

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    What with journalists being arrested, state media placed under military control and the Internet disconnected, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the clampdown by the armed forces in Sudan and its serious consequences for the freedom to report the news and for access to information.

    “Military forces stormed Sudanese Radio and Television headquarters in Omdurman [the twin city of the capital Khartoum] and arrested employees,” the information ministry

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  • RSF visits Guinea to promote press freedom during transition

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    Less than two months after President Alpha Condé’s removal by military coup d’état on 5 September, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has just completed a two-day visit to Guinea to consult with journalists and others and to provide the new authorities with a list of ten recommendations for safeguarding and promoting press freedom during the decisive transition that has just begun.

    Access to information, legal and institutional reforms, journalists’ safety, the media regulator’s independence, support for the media and professionalisation of the media were among the subjects d

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  • Armed group torches reporter’s home in eastern DRC

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the military authorities in charge of Ituri province, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to do everything possible to identify those responsible for a targeted arson attack on a reporter’s home and bring them justice. Ituri is one of the eastern provinces where journalists have repeatedly been the victims of abuses and massacres.

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  • First worrying signs for press freedom in Guinea since last month’s coup

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    What with an army raid on a media outlet and privately-owned TV channels prevented from covering “national coordination” meetings, some media have had problems reporting the news since last month’s coup d’état in Guinea. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges the transitional authorities not to obstruct journalists’ work.

    “Even if journalists were not physically injured, they were all affected psychologically,” a journalist said after members of the Guinean military’s special forces

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  • Tanzanian cartoonist detained over cartoon of president

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns cartoonist Optatus Fwema’s arbitrary detention for the past two weeks in Tanzania over a cartoon of the president. This is the latest chilling message to journalists in a country where press freedom has been worsening steadily in recent years.

    Fwema has been held at Oysterbay police station in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s business capital, ever since he was arrested at his home on 24 September.

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  • Journalist arrested for covering militia attacks in central Somalia

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and its partner organisation, the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ), condemn the arrest and unwarranted detention of an independent journalist by police in central Somalia’s Galmudug region, and demand his immediate and unconditional release.


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  • RSF opens room for Swedish-Eritrean journalist Dawit Isaak in its Uncensored Library

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    Exactly twenty years after Dawit Isaak, a Swedish-Eritrean journalist, was incarcerated in Eritrea Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is opening a new room in the Uncensored Library in collaboration with the Dawit Isaak Library in Malmö/Sweden.

     

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  • Eritrea : RSF demands that Swedish Prosecutors assume their responsibility for Dawit Isaak

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    As Swedish-Eritrean journalist Dawit Isaak is now detained for 20 years in Eritrea, Reporters without Borders (RSF) has submitted a request to the Prosecutor-General in Sweden to reverse a decision not to investigate crimes against humanity in Isaak’s case. RSF is asking the Prosecutor-General to fulfill her international obligation.

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  • Police violence against reporters, media outlet, during protest in Kinshasa

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    Police attacked journalists and inflicted damage on the headquarters of a media outlet during a banned protest last Wednesday in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the exceptional violence used by the police and calls for those responsible to be sanctioned.

    A 30-second video posted on social media shows one of the reporters who covered the protest,  Patient

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  • Tanzania suspends newspaper for one month

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    The Tanzanian government’s decision to suspend an independent weekly for 30 days is “arbitrary and excessive” and a complete contradiction of the new president’s declared intention to stop sanctioning the media, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says.

    One of Tanzania’s most popular Swahili-language newspapers, Raia Mwema has been missing from the country’s newsstands since 6 September, one day after government spokesm

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  • Vice tightens on South Sudan’s journalists

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns an increase in the harassment of journalists and media outlets in South Sudan, amid civil society calls for the resignation of President Salva Kiir and Vice-President Riek Machar.

    The targets include Radio Jonglei, which has not broadcast since 27 August, when security officials raided the station, closed it down, briefly

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  • Burundian president attacks RFI reporter covering surge in Covid cases

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Burundian President Évariste Ndayishimiye to combat a month-old surge in Covid-19 cases in his country instead of verbal attacking a Burundian journalist who has been covering it.

    The president has publicly attacked Esdras Ndikumana, a reporter for French public radio broadcaster Radio France Internationale (RFI), twice in the past two weeks, most r

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  • Intruders stab community radio director to death in northeastern DRC

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the past weekend’s murder of the director of a community radio station based in Biakoto, a locality in Ituri province, in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and calls for a full investigation leading to the identification and conviction of those responsible.

    Joël Musavuli, the director of Radio Télévision Communautaire de Babombi (RTCB), was stabbed in the neck in his home by unidentified intruders late on the night o

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  • Wave of police attacks on reporters during Uganda’s night-time Covid curfew

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the repeated attacks against journalists by police enforcing a night-time curfew imposed in Uganda to combat a surge in Covid-19 cases. The authorities must not use lockdown measures to restrict press freedom, RSF says.

    Patrick Bukenya, a journalist with privately-owned Radio Mityana FM 98.0, was returning home on the evening of 1 August when a police officer stopped him and

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  • RSF hails former Malian intelligence chief’s arrest over reporter’s disappearance

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) welcomes the arrest of the former head of Mali’s intelligence agency, which is alleged to have held a journalist incommunicado for several months after he disappeared in January 2016, as RSF revealed earlier this month.

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  • Court’s decision to uphold conviction deals “unprecedented setback” to press freedom in Benin

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) will support Beninese journalist Ignace Sossou’s appeals to regional or international jurisdictions following the grave and unprecedented decision by Benin’s supreme court to uphold the conviction that led to his being jailed arbitrarily for six months last year.

    In a ruling issued after examining the case on 23 July, the supreme court concluded that Benin’s laws were corr

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  • Cameroonian journalist completes five years in “provisional” detention

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the disgraceful judicial conspiracy against Amadou Vamoulké, a Cameroonian journalist who completed his fifth year in “provisional” detention yesterday while a court continued to drag out his trial.

    The court adjourned the trial for the 74th time yesterday, the fifth anniversary of Vamoulké’s arrest in 2016 on an absurd charge for which there is

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  • Beninese journalist’s conviction must be quashed

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Benin’s supreme court to quash Bénin Web TV journalist Ignace Sossou’s May 2020 conviction on a charge of “harassment by means of electronic communications” when it examines the case today. RSF also urges Benin’s authorities to overhaul the country’s Digital Law, which poses a threat to its journalists.

    Originally given an 18-month sentence in December 2019, Sossou spent six months in prison on this charge.

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  • Ghanaian MP calls for journalist to be “beaten, whipped”

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    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges the Ghanaian authorities to prosecute a member of parliament who threatened a journalist during a TV interview, calling for him to be beaten. The journalist must also be given protection, RSF says.

    Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, the MP for the Assin Central district in southern Ghana, threatened Luv FM journalist Erastus Asare Donkor during a a live interview on 9 July on

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  • Support banner hung in Paris on reporter’s 100th day as hostage in Mali

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    As French journalist Olivier Dubois completes his 100th day as the hostage of an armed group in Mali, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and officials from the Paris city hall today hung a banner supporting Dubois over the entrance to the town hall of the 10th arrondissement in Paris.

    “Olivier is fighting to inform us, let’s not forget him.” says the banner, which will remain there throughout the summer.

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