Chad

(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is a 3 March 2008 IFJ media release: IFJ Calls on Chadian Government to End “Media Crackdown” The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on the government of Chad to end the increasing pressure on media after President Idriss Deby Itno signed a decree increasing jail terms for media offences […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders condemns the Chadian government’s adoption of a new press law by decree on 20 February 2008. Instead of abolishing prison sentences for press offences, it makes them much longer, and it makes it harder to launch a newspaper. “The government promised several times that the press law would be liberalised,” […]

Freedom of the Press 2006: Chad

(RSF/IFEX) – Après une semaine d’état d’urgence, instauré le 15 février 2008, Reporters sans frontières constate le bilan désastreux des mesures prises par le gouvernement et leurs conséquences dramatiques pour la presse indépendante. Comité de censure des médias, grève des journaux privés, suspension de certains programmes radiophoniques sur des stations privées, propos agressifs du ministre […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has condemned harassment and censorship of the privately-owned press by the governments of Chad and Sudan after rebels, which N’Djamena accuses of being in the pay of Khartoum, launched an offensive against the Chadian capital. “The press – easy prey, systematic scapegoat and convenient whipping boy in case of a […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders is very concerned by attempts to arrest several journalists in N’Djamena in the wake of an abortive military assault on the capital by a rebel coalition at the start of February 2008. “Several opposition leaders have been arrested and are being held incommunicado somewhere in the capital,” the press freedom […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 17 January 2008 CPJ press release: Chadian police take radio station off the air New York, January 17, 2008 – Police in the Chadian capital, N’djamena, forced a radio station launched by local human rights activists off the air on Wednesday and detained its director on allegations of defamation […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders calls on the Chadian authorities to explain why the police raided privately-owned radio FM Liberté in N’Djamena, on 16 January 2008, closed it down and arrested its manager, Djekourninga Kaoutar Lazar. “A raid on a respected radio station, its arbitrary closure and the arrest of its manager are methods one […]

(RSF/IFEX) – The following is an abridged version of a 17 December 2007 RSF press release: Editor charged, temporarily released; weekly ordered closed, say police On 17 December 2007, Nadjikimo Benoudjita, editor of the private weekly “Notre Temps”, was charged with “inciting tribal and religious hatred” then released until his next summons to appear in […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has called for an explanation from the Chadian authorities for the dawn arrest and detention of Nadjikimo Benoudjita, managing editor of the privately-owned weekly “Notre Temps”. The worldwide press freedom organisation called for his release if he was being held in connection with his work as a journalist. On 14 […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has voiced disappointment and dismay on learning that French photo-reporters Marc Garmirian of the Capa news agency and Jean-Daniel Guillou of the Synchro X agency were formally charged, on 29 October 2007, in the eastern city of Abéché with “kidnapping minors” and “fraud” along with members of Arche de Zoé […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has called for the unconditional release of reporter Marc Garmirian of the Capa news agency and photographer Jean-Daniel Guillou of the Synchro X agency, who have been held since 25 October 2007 in the eastern town of Abéché with members of the French association Arche de Zoé (Zoé’s Ark) following […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 16 October 2007 CPJ press release: CHAD: CPJ condemns government’s blanket censorship order New York, October 16, 2007 – The Committee to Protect Journalists released the following statement today after Chadian authorities issued the second state of emergency since May including a blanket suppression of media across the country. […]

(RSF/IFEX) – On 30 May 2007, Reporters Without Borders was told by the Chadian government that the country’s newspapers can again be published without having to obtain prior approval for each issue from a censorship committee that was set up under a state of emergency in November 2006. “This a great relief,” the press freedom […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 16 March 2007 CPJ press release: In Chad, journalist convicted of defamation New York, March 16, 2007 – A court in the capital N’Djamena sentenced on Tuesday a journalist to a six-month suspended prison term and damages on criminal defamation charges over a May 2006 story alleging corruption by […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has called for the release of journalist and human rights activist Marcel Ngargoto, who has been held by gendarmes in the southern town of Moissala since 31 January 2007. Ngargoto works for Radio Brakoss, a Moissala-based community radio. He is also secretary-general of the organisation Human Rights Without Borders (DHSF). […]