A two-year jail sentence was passed by a court passed Thursday on Hanevy Ould Dehah, the editor of the website Taqadoumy, at the end of an incomprehensible and arbitrary trial, according to Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). Dehah, who was not freed in December on completing a six-month sentence of a charge of violating public decency, was convicted this time on charges of violating public decency...
An Egyptian criminal court on Tuesday sentence a journalist to one year in prison and a fine of 60,000 Egyptian pounds (US$10,500) on criminal charges filed by another journalist who is also a member of parliament, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. According to local news reports, Yasser Barakat, editor-in-chief of the weekly Al-Mougaz was convicted of defamation in a suit...
An Ethiopian judge sentenced a journalist to prison on Friday in connection with a January 2008 column that criticised Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s statements about religious affairs in Ethiopia, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported quoting local journalists. Federal High Court Judge Mohammed Omar sentenced Editor Ezedin Mohamed of the Muslim-oriented newspaper Al-Quds to one...
A Tunisian appeals court on Saturday upheld a six-month prison sentence against journalist Taoufik Ben Brik, one of President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali’s toughest critics, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. Ben Brik was charged in November 2009 with assault, property damage, and violating public morality in connection with a purported attack on a woman, according to CPJ...
Over the past month, military-controlled courts in Burma have sentenced two undercover Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) reporters to punitive prison terms over their reporting, according to Committee to Protect Journalists. On January 27, a special court attached to Rangoon’s notorious Insein prison sentenced DVB reporter Ngwe Soe Lin, also known as Tun Kyaw, to 13 years in prison on charges...
A Vietnamese journalist has been awarded a jail sentence on charges that she spread anti-state propaganda, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. Pham Thanh Nghien, a freelance writer, was arrested during a government crackdown on dissidents in September 2008 and originally charged with staging a protest against Vietnamese policy on a maritime dispute with China, according to...
An appeals court in the city of Nabeul refused Wednesday to release Tunisian Zuhair Makhlouf despite his completion of a three-month prison term imposed in October, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. Makhlouf, a contributor to news website Assabil Online and the opposition weekly Al-Mawkif, remains in prison following his lawyer’s motion for a provisional release, according...
Yemeni journalist Moaz Ashhabi was sentenced on January 16 to one year in prison by a court in Sana’a dealing with press matters which also banned him from working as journalist for one year for “falsification" of the Koran, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. The charge related to his column that was carried by the weekly al-Thaqafa (Culture) on October 7, 2009. Ashhabi was taken to the...
A three-month jail sentence has been slapped by a Sana’a special court for press matters on Anissa Mohammed Ali Othman for “insulting the president” in two articles for the weekly Al-Wassat in July 2007. The court on Saturday also banned her from working as a journalist for a year and fined her editor, Jamal Amer 10,000 rials (34 euros), Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. Published in...
The editor of a Peruvian weekly newspaper in the Amazonian city of Bagua, Utcubamba province, was sentenced on Tuesday to one year in jail on defamation charges, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported quoting local news reports. Alejandro Carrascal Carrasco, editor of the Bagua-based weekly Nor Oriente, was convicted of charges that stemmed from a series of articles he wrote in...
