New York, December 20, 2011--Authorities in the Republic of Congo should immediately lift the months-long suspensions imposed last week against two private weeklies in reprisal for articles critical of government officials, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
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Republic of Congo
One out of 10 delegates participating this week in U.S. President Barack Obama's Young African Leaders Forum was a journalist. The forum, a U.S. initiative meant to spark discussions on the future of Africa in a year when 17 countries on the continent are celebrating 50 years of nationhood, did not overlook freedom of the press, as I witnessed in its final event on Thursday at Washington
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Your Excellencies: As you gather in Paris for festivities that celebrate your nations’ 50 years of independence, we, the undersigned African press freedom advocates petition for your public commitment to a free, vibrant, and self-sustaining press as a cornerstone of the development of francophone Africa in the next five decades.
New York, July 17, 2009--The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the harassment of international journalists covering this week's disputed presidential elections in Republic of Congo.On
Wednesday, police smashed the camera of videographer Marlène Rabaud of France
24 while she was filming the dispersal of an opposition demonstration
in the capital, Brazzaville France
New York, July 2, 2009--Nearly four months after the death of
Franco-Congolese journalist Bruno
Jacquet Ossébi, the Committee to Protect Journalists called today for authorities
in the Republic of Congo to publicly disclose a report that was prepared weeks
ago on their investigation.
A mysterious fire in
A French judge on
Tuesday authorized an
anti-corruption group to pursue a complaint that questions how the leaders of three
oil-rich, central African nations amassed their personal assets. One byline was
absent in news media coverage: Bruno Ossébi, an online Congolese columnist and one
of the few local journalists who had covered the sensitive issue. Ossébi died
in February in a mysterious fire that destroyed his home and killed three
others.
The government of the Republic of Congo reacted
over the weekend to last week's CPJ special report looking into the unsolved
death of Franco-Congolese online journalist Bruno Jacquet Ossébi. We welcome
the government's interest in the case and take note that an official spokesman did
not dispute our findings.
Bruno Jacquet Ossébi, a Franco-Congolese journalist known for outspoken coverage of government corruption in the
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