Posts Tagged ‘newspaper’
April 13th, 2011
Two independent
Sudanese newspapers, al-Maidan and Ajras al-Hurriya, are
halting publication in protest at government censorship. Whilst Ajras has had its distribution blocked since Wednesday, al-Maidan has been barred from circulation three times already this month. The government has
stepped up censorship in the wake of anti-government protests which started in January of this year.
February 15th, 2010
Mallam Tukur, editor and publisher of Desert Herald, an independent weekly in Kaduna state, has been
arrested and threatened with prosecution on defamation charges. The
Committee to Protect Journalists claim the threats are related to a recent article accusing Yobe’s
Governor Ibrahim Geidam of corruption.
February 11th, 2010
Ozan Kilinc, editor of Kurdish newspaper Azadiya Welat, has been sentenced to 21 years in jail for publishing ‘Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) propaganda’. Comments or acts judged supportive of the PKK are a serious crime in Turkey. The PKK, branded a
terrorist organisation, launched an armed campaign for Kurdish self-rule in 1984.
June 24th, 2009
The National Intelligence Agency (NIA) in Gambia has closed down The Point newspaper and forced two journalists and an executive member of the Gambia Press Union into hiding. Read more
here
