Articles by Journaliste en danger (JED)
IFEX-TMG calls for seven-year sentences to be overturned
Ahead of a court of appeal hearing on 28 May, IFEX-TMG urges judiciary to quash the seven-year prison terms handed down to Ghazi Ben Mohamed Beji and Jaber Ben Abdallah Majri for online publishing.
One hundred organisations call to end assault on freedom of speech, and to free all detained human rights defenders and netizens
UPDATE: The president of IFEX member Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), Nabeel Rajab, was re-arrested and sentenced to three years in prison on 16 August. Many other human rights defenders remain in prison, including BCHR’s founder Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, and his daughter, Zainab Al-Khawaja.
JED deplores suspension of Radio Liberté, calls for restraint
Eight journalists were arrested during the police raid on the station.
Two journalists held by police in Kisangani
Sébastien Mulamba and Mbuyi Mukadi, both with the monthly Kisangani News, were arrested by plainclothes officers from police intelligence.
JED warns of grave threats to Radio Okapi journalist’s safety
JED calls on Congolese and UN authorities to take all necessary measures to guarantee Gisèle Kaj’s physical safety.
Thirty-two IFEX members urge authorities to release journalist Eskinder Nega
On 1 May, jailed journalist Eskinder Nega, facing the death penalty, receives in absentia the 2012 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award. Thirty-two IFEX members are calling for his release, and an end to the use of national security legislation against all writers and journalists.
Screenings of documentary on assassinated human rights activist banned
Authorities’ ordered a country-wide ban on screenings of “The Chebeya Affair: State Crime?”, a documentary film abut the circumstances surrounding the trial of the killers of Floribert Chebeya.
Wave of detentions in West Kasai province
JED denounced the intimidation of journalists by local national intelligence agency officials in Tshimbulu.