Index on Censorship » Central African Republic http://www.indexoncensorship.org for free expression Fri, 17 May 2013 16:22:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 for free expression Index on Censorship no for free expression Index on Censorship » Central African Republic http://www.indexoncensorship.org/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/Free_Speech_Bites_Logo.jpg http://www.indexoncensorship.org Central Africa Republic: Editor charged with “inciting hatred and violence” http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/06/central-africa-republic-editor-charged-with-inciting-hatred-and-violence/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/06/central-africa-republic-editor-charged-with-inciting-hatred-and-violence/#comments Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:29:07 +0000 Intern http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=23501 The editor of an independent weekly newspaper in the Central African Republic was jailed on 6 June. Faustin Bambou’s arrest on 27 May followed a series of articles he wrote on embezzlement cases. In one article he suggested that defence minister Jean-Francis Bozizé, President François Bozizé’s son, had embezzled funds donated by the European Union. [...]

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]]> weekly newspaper in the Central African Republic was jailed on 6 June. Faustin Bambou’s arrest on 27 May followed a series of articles he wrote on embezzlement cases. In one article he suggested that defence minister Jean-Francis Bozizé, President François Bozizé’s son, had embezzled funds donated by the European Union. The court claimed that Bombou’s reports “incited hatred and violence” by encouraging violent demonstrations by former soldiers demanding to be paid.

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]]> http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/06/central-africa-republic-editor-charged-with-inciting-hatred-and-violence/feed/ 1 Journaliste en Danger (JED) http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2009/05/journaliste-en-danger-jed/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2009/05/journaliste-en-danger-jed/#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 22:56:55 +0000 Index on Censorship http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=3212 Journaliste en Danger is an organisation dedicated to the defence and promotion of press freedom, initially in the DRC and since May 2003 also in Burundi, Cameroon, Coorganisation Brazzaville, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Central African Republic, Rwanda and Thad.

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