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On 2 May 2013, a crowd of opposition members was attacked with live bullets by police officers in Conakry. The political standoff between the government and the opposition intensifies as parliamentary elections drawn near.
Africa Highlights
Attacks
Pierre Havyarimana was stripped of his job as a police officer and given 15 years in jail after shooting a journalist who inquired about a roadblock in Bujumbura.
Impunity
Human Rights Watch issued a video recently in which relatives of the victims of the April 2011 killings, when at least nine people were killed by security forces during protests, explain the impact it had on their families and their struggle to secure justice and compensation.
Access to Information Free Expression & the LawARTICLE 19 welcomes a High Court decision that citizens have the right to access the information held by public and state owned corporations, but is highly concerned by the court's continued narrow interpretation of "citizens" that would prevent NGOs, media organisations, and informal associations from making requests.
Human Rights Network for Journalists - Uganda
Media Rights Agenda
Media Foundation for West Africa
The Gambia Free Expression & the Law
16 May 2013
Reporters Without Borders
Equatorial Guinea Digital Rights Censorship
14 May 2013
Center for Media Studies and Peace Building
Liberia Free Expression & the Law
14 May 2013
Human Rights Network for Journalists - Uganda
Media Foundation for West Africa
Sierra Leone World Press Freedom Day
10 May 2013
Reporters Without Borders
Chad Senegal Digital Rights
10 May 2013
Center for Media Studies and Peace Building
Media Institute of Southern Africa
Center for Media Studies and Peace Building
Liberia Free Expression & the Law
9 May 2013
Human Rights Watch
South Sudan Censorship Free Expression & the Law
7 May 2013
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders
Writers in Prison Committee, PEN International
Chad Digital Rights
7 May 2013
Center for Media Studies and Peace Building
Human Rights Watch
Sudan World Press Freedom Day
3 May 2013
Reporters Without Borders
Gabon Free Expression & the Law
3 May 2013
Committee to Protect Journalists
Ethiopia Free Expression & the Law
3 May 2013
ARTICLE 19
Somalia Impunity World Press Freedom Day
3 May 2013
National Union of Somali Journalists
Somalia World Press Freedom Day
3 May 2013
Human Rights Watch
Ethiopia World Press Freedom Day
3 May 2013
Ethiopia Free Expression & the Law
2 May 2013
Committee to Protect Journalists
Human Rights Network for Journalists - Uganda
Uganda World Press Freedom Day
2 May 2013
Media Foundation for West Africa
ARTICLE 19
The Gambia Free Expression & the Law
30 April 2013
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