[CPJ\Angola Police Brutality]
CPJ\Angela Quintal: “Angolan authorities must stop harassing and detaining journalists who are simply doing their work and must allow them to report freely.”
Photo: CPJ\Osvaldo Silva
Angela Quintal
CPJ calls for journalists’ safety to be protected amid Nigeria protests
[Committee to Protect Journalists]
CPJ: “Journalists in Nigeria are too often attacked simply for working to keep the Nigerian public and the world informed about what is happening in their country. Journalists’ safety is part of what it means to have freedom of the press, and is critical for Nigerian democracy.”
Photo: YouTube
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South African Journalists Attacked covering Farmer Protest
[CPJ\South Africa]
CPJ: “Authorities must thoroughly investigate the recent attacks on The Citizen journalists Tracy Lee Stark and Marizka Coetzer.”
Photo: The Citizen/Tracy Lee Stark)
Journalists attacked covering alleged vote fraud in Nigeria’s Edo state
[Samson Adenekan\Offem Nathaniel Ubanga]
CPJ: “The consistent attacks on journalists covering elections in Nigeria amount to direct attacks on democracy…Those who attacked journalists Samson Adenekan and Offem Nathaniel Ubanga during the elections in Edo state must be held accountable.”
Photo: YouTube
Nigerian journalist held since August on cybercrime charge
[Ime Sunday Silas]
CPJ: “The prolonged detention of journalist Ime Sunday Silas is yet another grave reminder of the lengths to which Nigerian authorities are willing to go to silence journalism they find undesirable.”
Photo: CPJ
Zimbabwe Journalist Hopewell Chin’ono released on Bail, with Restrictions
[Hopewell Chin’ono]
CPJ: “We welcome today’s long-overdue release of journalist Hopewell Chin’ono, but authorities must immediately drop the vindictive and meritless charges against him and let him live and work freely.”
Photo: YouTube
Nigerian journalist attacked by police covering COVID-19 lockdown
[Sikiru Obarayese]
CPJ’s Angela Quintal: “The attack by police on journalist Sikiru Obarayese is an alarming reminder of the Nigerian police’s willingness to target the press for doing their jobs.”
Photo: CPJ
CPJ: Guinea Bissau Broadcaster Radio Capital FM Vandalized
[Guinea Bissau\Radio Capital FM]
CPJ: “In the early morning of July 26, unidentified armed men in uniforms of Guinea Bissau’s national guard smashed equipment and other property at the office of the privately-owned Radio Capital FM station in Bissau, the capital.”
Photo: Facebook
CPJ: Nigerian Authorities Should Investigate Beating of Journalist Nwosu
[Ike-Jacobs Nwosu\CPJ]
CPJ: Ugboma called in a group of men and told them to take Nwosu away, the journalist told CPJ. At least four men arrived and attacked Nwosu, slapping him repeatedly in the face and across his body, according to the journalist and a report by independent news website Basic Sports in Nigeria.
Photo: Facebook
Nigerian Journalist in Hiding after Police Arrest Fellow Journalists
[Journalist Cletus Opukeme]
CPJ’s Angela Quintal: “Nigeria’s police must stop detaining and questioning journalists, and should disclose the reason they are pursuing journalist Cletus Opukeme.”
Photo: Facebook
