Media Rights Agenda (MRA)

On 13 January 2014, Mr. Callistus Ewelike, a photojournalist with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), was shot in front of his house as he was returning from covering the commissioning of a power project by President Goodluck Jonathan. Ewelike was taken to the hospital for surgery.

On 13 December 2013, Mr. Yunusa Gabriel Enemali, a broadcast journalist in Nigeria, was assaulted and severely wounded by policemen in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, on suspicion of taking photographs of a policeman allegedly collecting a bribe.

On 16 December 2013, journalists who converged at the Federal University of Technology to cover an emergency meeting of National Executive Council of Nigeria’s Academic Staff Union of Universities were assaulted by the lecturers who asked them to leave the venue.

Tony Abide, a correspondent for the Daily Trust newspaper, went into hiding after receiving text messages and phone calls saying that he would be gunned down before 25 December 2013.

IFEX members are calling on the president of Romania to veto proposed changes to the penal code passed by Parliament that would recriminalise insult and libel.

Representatives of freedom of expression organisations in Africa that are members of IFEX met in Accra, Ghana, on 9 and 10 December 2013 to develop a framework for regional networking in Africa.

IFEX members strongly condemn recent attacks on journalists during public demonstrations in Kyiv and call for those responsible to be held accountable.

Over 50 IFEX members and partners appeal to the civil society groups assisting in a consultation process with elected representatives to protect freedom of expression in the new Tunisian Constitution.