We believe that Eskinder Nega is a “Prisoner of Conscience”, someone who is being detained solely for his peaceful and legitimate activities as a journalist. We therefore call for his, as well as the many other unjustly arrested journalists’, immediate and unconditional release.
Rafael Marques de Morais is an internationally well respected journalist who dared write a book exposing human rights abuses and corruption in the diamond fields in Angola.
Hafnaoui Ghoul, a correspondent for the daily newspaper “El Youm” and a member of the Algerian Human Rights League. Hafnaoui Ghoul publicized concerns about human rights violations and alleged corruption and public mismanagement in the region of Djelf.
In 2002 the 35-year-old was sentenced to two years in prison for his involvement with TUNeZINE, an independent website critical of the Tunisian government.
During a third trial before Egypt’s highest civil court in 2003, he was cleared of all charges and released, but not before a storm of international protest had put the Mubarak regime on the defensive.
Our groups letters of concern helped release Hassan Bility of Liberia Hassan Bility was a journalist with The Analyst newspaper, who was held incommunicado and without charge or trial following his arrest on June 24, 2002.
Karim Amer, 23-year-old writer, blogger and student sentenced to 4 years imprisonment for criticizing religious and government authorities.
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