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Spotlight: Senegal Digital Rights

Chadian editor accused of "inciting hatred", blogger in Senegal expelled

10 May 2013
Reporters Without Borders

Newspaper editor Moussaye Avenir De la Tchiré is reportedly accused of “inciting hatred and a popular uprising.” The Chadian authorities are also seeking the extradition of Makaila Nguebla, a Chadian blogger who fled to Senegal, from where he was expelled to Guinea-Conakry.

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Chad Digital Rights

Anti-corruption blogger charged with defamation in Chad

Jean Laokolé was charged with defamation after being arrested by men in civilian clothes and detained incommunicado for three days. The charges are thought to relate to a series of articles he wrote denouncing corruption, poor governance and nepotism in Chad.

‎Writers in Prison Committee, PEN International‎ 7 May 2013

Chad Digital Rights Free Expression & the Law

Opposition blogger held for three weeks by Chadian authorities

According to his family, Jean Etienne Laokolé was summoned for questioning by the criminal investigation police as the result of a complaint about an article posted on an exile blog called Le blog de Makaila.

‎Reporters Without Borders‎12 April 2013

Chad Free Expression & the Law

Draft media law would sound death knell for independent press in Chad

Media groups believe the government's hidden agenda is to engineer the closure of several publications, including the opposition newspaper Ndjaména Bi-hebdo and the bi-monthly Abba Garde, Chad’s newest newspaper and the most widely-read in N’Djamena.

‎Reporters Without Borders‎23 November 2012

Latest from Chad

Chadian journalist convicted for publishing petition

‎Reporters Without Borders‎

Free Expression & the Law 19 September 2012
Parliament adopts repressive media law

‎Reporters Without Borders‎

24 August 2010
Repressive print media bill rejected in parliamentary vote

‎Reporters Without Borders‎

8 June 2010
Court lifts sanctions against weekly "La Voix"

‎Reporters Without Borders‎

8 January 2010
Cameroonian newspaper editor abducted

‎Reporters Without Borders (RSF)‎

22 December 2009
Former minister sues editor over embezzlement allegations

‎Journaliste en danger (JED)‎

8 December 2009
Judge orders automatic seizure of newspaper's issues

‎Reporters Without Borders (RSF)‎

4 December 2009
Authorities continue to hound new weekly, seek its closure

‎Reporters Without Borders (RSF)‎

2 December 2009
Cameroonian journalist expelled

‎Reporters Without Borders (RSF)‎

16 October 2009
World Report 2009: Chad

‎Human Rights Watch (Human Rights Watch)‎

22 January 2009
CPJ urges government to repeal repressive media law

‎Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)‎

10 June 2008
Annual Report 2008: Chad

‎Reporters Without Borders (RSF)‎

9 April 2008
World Report 2008: Chad

‎Human Rights Watch (Human Rights Watch)‎

2 April 2008
N'Djamena's privately-owned press starts publishing again for first time since state of emergency proclaimed

‎Reporters Without Borders (RSF)‎

28 March 2008
French journalist forced to leave country after authorities "definitively" withdraw her accreditation

‎Journaliste en danger (JED)‎

20 March 2008
Presidential decree increases jail terms for press offences; IFJ calls for end to media crackdown

‎International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)‎

4 March 2008
New press law, adopted by decree, increases penalties for offences and obstacles to starting a newspaper

‎Reporters Without Borders‎

28 February 2008
Freedom of the Press 2006: Chad

‎Freedom House (Freedom House)‎

27 February 2008
Au moins trois journaux en grève et le syndicat des radios appelle à suspendre leur programmation en signe de protestation contre l'état d'urgence

‎Reporters Without Borders‎

25 February 2008
Privately-owned press caught up in proxy war

‎Reporters Without Borders‎

Sudan 15 February 2008
Journalists flee to neighbouring countries in wake of failed rebellion; authorities harass and arrest reporters

‎Reporters Without Borders‎

11 February 2008
Radio director released after three days in prison, station still closed; IFJ calls for authorities to end media repression

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25 January 2008
Further arrests follow radio station's closure

‎Committee to Protect Journalists‎

18 January 2008
Police raid, shut down N'Djamena radio station and arrest manager

‎Reporters Without Borders‎

17 January 2008
Editor charged, temporarily released; weekly ordered closed, say police

‎Reporters Without Borders (RSF)‎

18 December 2007
Managing editor detained at intelligence headquarters

‎Reporters Without Borders (RSF)‎

14 December 2007

At a glance

Chad

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Press Freedom Index 2011-2012: Chad

Ranked 103rd in annual press freedom index

Reporters Without Borders 25 January 2012

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