(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ press release: CPJ SPECIAL REPORT SENEGAL: Government stalls on promise to reform repressive laws Journalists focus on defamation laws and Article 80 of the Penal Code New York, June 6, 2005 – Nearly one year after a journalist was imprisoned for his work, the government has failed to […]
(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ press release:
CPJ SPECIAL REPORT
SENEGAL: Government stalls on promise to reform repressive laws
Journalists focus on defamation laws and Article 80 of the Penal Code
New York, June 6, 2005 – Nearly one year after a journalist was imprisoned for his work, the government has failed to implement promised legal reforms. In “Freedom. . . With Limits,” a special report released today, CPJ looks at journalists’ uphill struggle to end criminal sanctions for press offenses and other repressive legal provisions, notably Article 80 of the Penal Code. It was under this vaguely worded security provision that Madiambal Diagne, editor of a prominent private newspaper, spent more than two weeks in jail last year. He and his fellow local reporters say that laws allowing the imprisonment of journalists for their work pose a long-term threat to press freedom in a country that prides itself on its democratic credentials.
Click here to read the report in English: http://www.cpj.org/Briefings/2005/senegal_05/senegal_05.html
