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Mauritania  Attacks

Mauritania: 13 Anti-Slavery Activists Jailed

This statement was originally published by mfwa.org on August 25, 2016 Thirteen anti-slavery activists in Mauritania have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from...
Mali  Digital Rights

Mali: Social Media Blackout

This statement was originally published by MFWA on August 19, 2016. There has been a suspected social media shutdown in Mali since August 17, 2016. Reports...
Mali  Attacks

Mali: One Dead, Several Others Injured for Protesting Arrest of Radio Presenter

This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on August 18, 2016. One person is reported dead and several others injured after supporters of a popular...
Guinea  Attacks

Guinea: Police Bar Media from Court, Brutalise Reporter

This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on August 15, 2016. Anti-riot police on duty at a court in Conakry have beaten up a journalist...
Benin  Attacks

Benin: Armed Policemen Raid Newspaper Office

This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on August 15, 2016.  On August 11, 2016, about ten armed police officers in Benin raided the premises of...
Liberia  Attacks

Liberia: Radio Station Shut Down

This statement was originally published by mfwa.org on August 14, 2016. The government of Liberia has shut down privately-owned Radio LIB24. The MFWA’s partner organisation in...
Ghana  Attacks

Ghana: Sports Journalists Attacked by Football Fans

This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on August 11, 2016. Two journalists from Jem FM, a privately-owned radio station in the Ashanti Region of...
Mauritania  Censorship

Mauritania: Authorities ban Media from Covering Arab League Summit

This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on August 1, 2016. The authorities in Mauritania barred about twelve journalists from covering the 27th Arab League...
Ghana  Impunity

Victory Against Impunity: Editor, Reporters Win Assault Case in Court

This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on July 27, 2016. On June 27, 2016, a Human Rights Court in Ghana’s capital Accra, fined two...
Gambia  Attacks

The Gambia: 19 Persons Jailed for Demonstrating Without Permit

The statement was originally published on mfwa.org, on July 21, 2016. On July 20, 2016, a High Court in The Gambia capital Banjul, sentenced 19...
Mauritania  Attacks

Mauritania: Journalist Jailed Three Years for Throwing Shoe at State Official

This statement was originally published on mfwa.org, on July 18, 2016. A Magistrate’s Court in Nouakchott, Mauritania has sentenced a journalist to three years in...
Guinea Bissau  Censorship

Guinea Bissau: Director of News at State Broadcaster Sacked for Defying Censorship Order

The statement was originally published by mfwa.org on July 15, 2016. The Director of News at the state radio broadcaster in Guinea Bissau, Radiodifusao Nationale...
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