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Spotlight: Free Expression & the Law

Journalist in Djibouti freed conditionally after being held more than three months

21 November 2012
Reporters Without Borders

Houssein Ahmed Farah was arrested on 8 August and has been held since 11 August in the capital’s Gabode prison despite his poor health and the lack of evidence for any of the charges against him.

Djibouti Highlights
From our Network

Djibouti Access to Information Free Expression & the Law

Djibouti: UN Universal Periodic Review Submission

In its submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review, ARTICLE 19 outlines its concerns that, over the last four years, there has been an escalation in violations of the right to freedom of expression and information, and the right to freedom of peaceful assembly in Djibouti.

‎ARTICLE 19‎11 October 2012

Djibouti Digital Rights Censorship Free Expression & the Law

News website correspondent arrested, held incommunicado in Djibouti

Houssein Ahmed Farah was arrested at around 11 a.m. on 8 August in Djibouti-Ville by two police officers, Col. Abdoulkader Ibrahim Gona and Col. Abdillahi Hassan Boulaleh.

‎Reporters Without Borders‎10 August 2012

Djibouti

RSF asks UN rapporteur to help end journalist's torture

Mendez was urged to intervene on behalf of radio journalist Farah Abadid Hildid, who works for the Europe-based station La Voix de Djibouti.

‎Reporters Without Borders (RSF)‎26 March 2012

Latest from Djibouti

Radio journalist threatened and tortured for 24 hours

‎Reporters Without Borders‎

3 February 2012
Two radio reporters freed conditionally after being held for four days, tortured

‎Reporters Without Borders‎

25 November 2011
Opposition radio reporters arrested again, concern about mistreatment

‎Reporters Without Borders‎

Free Expression & the Law 24 November 2011
Six contributors to opposition radio station held in Gabode prison for past four months

‎Reporters Without Borders‎

15 June 2011
Government urged to end systematic crackdown on critics, allow peaceful protests

‎Human Rights Watch‎

6 April 2011
Freedom of the Press 2007: Djibouti

‎Freedom House (Freedom House)‎

27 February 2008
Government's authoritarian excesses condemned on 30th anniversary of independence

‎Reporters Without Borders (RSF)‎

26 June 2007
Court rules that prosecution's case is incomplete in libel suit against opposition weekly, RSF urges authorities to drop charges

‎Reporters Without Borders (RSF)‎

13 February 2007
Police arrest brother and cousin of opposition weekly's managing editor

‎Reporters Without Borders (RSF)‎

7 February 2007
Police raids and arrests mark authorities' renewed harassment of opposition weekly

‎Reporters Without Borders (RSF)‎

6 February 2007
Authorities cut Radio France Internationale's FM broadcasts

‎Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)‎

16 February 2005
Journalist from "Le Renouveau" newspaper arrested

‎International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)‎

15 June 2004
Human Rights Watch calls for release of journalist being held in solitary confinement

‎Human Rights Watch (Human Rights Watch)‎

30 July 2003
Appeals court sends newspaper editor Daher Ahmed Farah back to prison

‎Reporters Without Borders (RSF)‎

10 July 2003
Newspaper editor Daher Ahmed Farah released again

‎Reporters Without Borders (RSF)‎

25 June 2003
Newspaper editor Daher Ahmed Farah re-arrested just two days after his release from custody

‎Reporters Without Borders (RSF)‎

9 June 2003
Newspaper editor Daher Ahmed Farah released provisionally

‎Reporters Without Borders (RSF)‎

4 June 2003
RSF urges authorities to release newspaper editor Daher Ahmed Farah

‎Reporters Without Borders (RSF)‎

28 May 2003
RSF calls on authorities to release editor as newspaper is seized again

‎Reporters Without Borders (RSF)‎

6 May 2003
Editor of opposition newspaper arrested again

‎Reporters Without Borders (RSF)‎

22 April 2003
Djiboutian journalist detained for seven months

‎Reporters Without Borders‎

Ethiopia 10 January 2000
Three journalists released

‎Reporters Without Borders (RSF)‎

8 December 1999
French television crew expelled

‎Reporters Without Borders (RSF)‎

25 October 1999
Two journalists sentenced to six months in prison on appeal

‎Reporters Without Borders (RSF)‎

21 October 1999
Djibouti journalist detained in Ethiopia

‎Reporters Without Borders (RSF)‎

Ethiopia 30 September 1999
Editor arrested

‎Reporters Without Borders (RSF)‎

22 September 1999

At a glance

Djibouti

Most covered free expression issues in this country
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Key reports and information

Press Freedom Index 2011-2012: Djibouti

"There is no free press"

Reporters Without Borders 26 January 2012

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