Chad

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF has called on Chadian members of Parliament to take the necessary steps to ensure the N’Djamena press may continue to publish without restrictions, as they did before the a state of emergency was declared on 13 November 2006. Residents of the nation’s capital now have only one source to turn to for […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has condemned the “archaic censorship” being implemented by the communications ministry and reiterated its call for the government of Chad to lift the draconian curbs on press freedom that are part of a state of emergency decreed on 13 November 2006. “The publication of newspapers with black strips replacing articles […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has condemned the imposition of prior censorship on the print media and a ban on sensitive issues on private radio stations under a state of emergency in the capital, N’Djamena, and six of the country’s regions, which the government decreed on 14 November 2006 in response to the serious intercommunal […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has called for the release of journalist Evariste Ngaralbaye, of the privately-owned weekly “Notre Temps”, who has been detained by the national gendarmerie since 27 October 2006. “We protest against the continued detention of Evariste Ngaralbaye. He should be urgently released,” the worldwide press freedom organisation said, adding: “We remind […]

(JED/IFEX) – Tchanguiz Vatankhah, président de l’URPT (Union des Radios privées du Tchad), a été libéré, vendredi 19 mai 2006, vers 15h00 (heure locale), après 20 jours de détention aux Services Généraux des Renseignements, à N’djamena, capitale du Tchad. JED a pu joindre par téléphone Tchanguiz à sa sortie de prison, qui a déclaré avoir […]

(JED/IFEX) – The president of the Chad Union of Privately-Owned Radio Stations (URPT), Tchanguiz Vatankhah, was released on 19 May 2006 at approximately 3:00 p.m. (local time), after 20 days in detention at the police headquarters (Services Généraux des Renseignements) in N’Djamena, the capital of Chad. JED joined Tchanguiz by telephone after he left the […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has issued an urgent appeal for the release of Tchanguiz Vatankhah, the director of Radio Brakoss and president of the Chad Union of Privately-Owned Radio Stations (URPT), whose state of health has deteriorated markedly, according to a human rights activist who has seen him in detention. Held at police headquarters […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has called for the immediate release of detained radio journalist Tchanguiz Vatankhah, the president of the Chad Union of Privately-Owned Radio Stations (URPT), who has been on hunger strike since early May 2006 to demand access to his lawyer, according to a local human rights group. An Iranian political refugee […]

(RSF/IFEX) – The following is an abridged version of an RSF alert: RSF is concerned by repeated attacks against the radio station Radio Terre Nouvelle (RTN), broadcast from Bongor (200 km south of N’Djamena). In a letter dated 10 May 2006 and addressed to the minister of culture and communication, Hourmadji Moussa Doumgor, the organisation […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 1 May 2006 CPJ press release: CHAD: Radio director held incommunicado on eve of elections New York, May 1, 2006 – The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed at the arrest on Friday of Tchanguis Vatankah, founder of an independent radio station and president of the Chadian Union of […]

(RSF/IFEX) – The following is an abridged version of an RSF press release: Reporters Without Borders has learned from the deputy prime minister of human rights, Abderamane Djasnabaille, that FM Liberté journalist and special envoy for the city of Mongo, Eliakim Vanambyl, for whom there was no news since 11 April 2006, has been found […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has voiced concern about the fate of FM Liberté reporter Eliakim Vanambyl, who was captured by rebels of the United Front for Change (FUC) when they took the central city of Mongo on 11 April 2006. There has been no word of him since then. “Anyone who has reliable information […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 30 November 2005 CPJ press release: CHAD: Radio director freed but faces expulsion from country New York, November 30, 2005 – Chadian authorities freed community radio director Tchanguis Vatankah on Tuesday after improperly holding the journalist in detention for more than two months. Vatankah, whose station is known for […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 26 September 2005 CPJ press release: CHAD: Three journalists freed; another ordered expelled New York, September 26, 2005 – The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release of three jailed journalists today in Chad. Garondé Djarma, Michaël Didama, and Sy Koumbo Singa Gali had been sentenced in July and […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is an 8 September 2005 CPJ press release: CHAD: Journalist granted provisional release; three others remain jailed New York, September 8, 2005 – Ngaradoumbé Samory, one of four Chadian journalists jailed since July in connection with their work, was granted a provisional release from prison today pending a decision on his […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 1 September 2005 CPJ press release: CHAD: CPJ speaks with jailed journalist New York, September 1, 2005 – Journalist Michaël Didama, speaking from his prison cell in the Chadian capital N’Djamena, today denounced his detention as illegal and called on local and international journalists to keep up pressure for […]