NIGER: Gli stati generali della comunicazione devono segnare l’inizio di una nuova era per la stampa

Gli stati generali della comunicazione si sono conclusi il 31 marzo 2010 a Niamey, dopo tre giorni di dibattiti. Reporters sans frontières si augura che l’avvenimento serva a riportare la libertà di stampa nel paese e a porre le basi di un nuovo rapporto tra media e potere. Il 29 marzo la giunta al potere [...]

NIGER: Abdoulaye Tiémogo liberato dopo oltre due mesi in carcere

Reporters Without Borders today noted the release from prison of Abdoulaye Tiémogo, editor of the independent weekly Le Canard déchaîné, after his sentence was reduced on appeal. The journalist, who is in poor health, had been held in custody since 1st August. He had been found guilty of “discrediting a judicial decision”. Tiémogo told Reporters Without Borders [...]

NIGER: Il giornalista Abdoulaye Tiémogo, condannato a 3 mesi di carcere, in ospedale per una brutta malaria, strappato dal suo letto e trasferito in una prigione isolata da membri della forza di sicurezza nazionale contro il parere dei medici

Reporters Without Borders said today it was shocked to learn that journalist Abdoulaye Tiémogo, who was recently sentenced to three months in jail, was yesterday dragged from his hospital bed and transferred to another prison 100 km north of the capital Niamey. Abdoulaye Tiémogo, publisher of the independent weeklyLe Canard déchaîné, who has a bad case [...]

NIGER: Carcere ad un editore di giornali per aver criticato un mandato d’arresto “screditando una decisione giudiziaria”

Reporters Without Borders condemns the three-month jail sentence which a Niamey court passed today on Abdoulaye Tiémogo, the publisher of the independent weekly Le Canard Déchaîné, on a charge of “discrediting a judicial decision.” “It is the decision to sentence a journalist to imprisonment that discredits Niger’s judicial system,” Reporters Without Borders said. “This comes just two [...]

NIGER: Otto editori di giornali interrogati per la pubblicazione di un documento che accusa il figlio del Presidente e un’altra persona di prendere tangenti.

Reporters Without Borders deplores the interrogation of eight newspaper publishers by the Niamey police on 1 August at the behest of the President’s son for publishing a document accusing him and another person of taking kickbacks. After being questioned, two of the publishers were taken into custody in connection with another case and were due [...]