Tuesday, 09 February 2010
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, greets Gambia's President Alhagi Yahya Jammeh, during his welcoming ceremony in Tehran, Iran Saturday Dec. 2, 2006. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)
No Light at the End of the Tunnel
African journalists faced a vast array of violations of their right to press freedom and freedom of expression in 2009. These included intimidation, harassment, threats, attacks, beatings, illegal detentions, arrests and imprisonment. Their equipment was confiscated and destroyed; many were forced to flee their home countries or stop reporting. Media houses were censored and sometimes shut down; their broadcast signals were jammed and copies of their publications were seized. Newspapers, ...
