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RSF issues new list of press freedom predators

To mark International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is today publishing a grim portrait gallery of 35 presidents, politicians, religious leaders, militias and criminal organizations that censor, imprison,

To mark International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is today publishing a grim portrait gallery of 35 presidents, politicians, religious leaders, militias and criminal organizations that censor, imprison, torture or murder journalists.

Most of these press freedom predators have been preying on the media for years, some for decades.
To draw attention to the impunity they enjoy, RSF has filled out a hunting permit for each of these predators. It identifies their favourite attack techniques, their enforcers, their favourite targets, their official discourse ­– blatant threats by some, complete denial by others – and their kill tally, which in some cases is only too real.

Each permit also gives the ranking of the predator’s country in RSF’s World Press Freedom Index, which is usually very low.

Their predatory techniques vary. Some use enforcers to torture and murder. Some use mass arrests and arbitrary imprisonment. Others employ more sophisticated methods such as terrorism laws, lèse-majesté charges or financial asphyxiation. The list is not exhaustive, naming only those who have distinguished themselves the most in the past year.

“These predators are the ones who most trample on media freedom and commit the worst atrocities against journalists without being held to account,” RSF secretary-general Christophe Deloire said. “The way to break the vicious cycle of impunity is to appoint a United Nations special representative for protecting journalists.”
35 predators censor, imprison, torture or murder journalists.

New predators replace old ones

As in the past, most of the predators are presidents or prime ministers of such countries as Singapore, Thailand, Cuba, Eritrea, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan

The list’s new entrants include Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who now controls most of his country’s media groups. The state of emergency introduced in July after a failed coup d’état gave him the opportunity to arrest more than 200 journalists and shut down more than 100 newspapers, magazines, TV channels and radio stations.

Fans of mass round-ups and arbitrary detention include Egypt’s Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, who was elected president in 2014 after leading the military coup against the Muslim Brotherhood government in July 2013. His regime hounds journalists with any kind of link to the Muslim Brotherhood. Similarly, Prayut Chan-O-Cha, Thailand’s junta chief and prime minister, has been gagging not only journalists, media outlets and bloggers, but also performers, intellectuals, academics and his political opponents ever since he introduced martial law in May 2014.

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In Burundi, President Pierre Nkurunziza began cracking down on the media in 2015, starting with those that covered a coup attempt by opponents of his plan to run for an unconstitutional third term. This persecution has taken many forms, including judicial harassment, arbitrary imprisonment, broadcasting and publication bans, beatings, torture and disappearances.

Since succeeding his brother Abdullah as Saudi Arabia’s king, Salman bin Abdelaziz Al Saud has embodied the heritage of a dynasty that has always been hostile to media freedom. Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro has his own methods for silencing media outlets. He got friends to buy El Universal and Globovisión, triggering a wave of dismissals and resignations. He orchestrates newsprint shortages to silence newspapers and he uses a law that criminalizes any content that may “call into question legitimately constituted authority.”

With regard to religious extremism, the Islamic State stops at nothing to impose terror, kidnapping and murdering journalists who do not swear allegiance, while Bangladesh’s Ansarullah Bangla Team posts lists of alleged blasphemers (secularist bloggers and freethinkers) on Facebook and calls for them to be murdered.

In Afghanistan and Pakistan, the Taliban continue their barbaric and deadly practices, turning the areas they control into information black holes where journalism is impossible. In Yemen, there have been countless abductions and disappearances of journalists and accounts of detainees being tortured under the Houthis, a Shia political movement that took control of the capital and most of the country in 2014, storming the studios of Al-Jazeera, Al-Yamane-Shabab and Yemen-Digital Media.

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24 COMMENTS
  • Z. Hagos November 2, 2016

    Eritreans have fought for a total of 75 years (20+30+25) to achieve their liberty to say what they want, which also known as freedom of expression. This tyrant finally comes to become the worst ever in killing all the rights, even the basic ones. After ensuring absolute control over Eritreans inside Eritrea, Isayas is trying to impose censorship on all Eritreans in the Diaspora through his agents. Surely, Isayas has silenced the tongues of his supports but, up to now, failed to silence the voice of the Eritrean justice seekers.
    ..
    Who would think of freedom of expression as unpatriotic when the whole population of Eritrea is being put on a frying pan risking extinction? Even worse, Alem Goitem and Kidane Keleta praise Isayas for silencing Eritreans. It is also shocking to see the tyrant’s supporters day and night exercising their right to criticize the neighboring countries and the world. But when it comes to their master, the diehards are lip tied. When you ask them to equally criticize Isayas, they don’t get offended as hypocrites, but instead they get defensive. They want the world to leave Isayas alone, doing what he is doing in silencing Eritreans by killing freedom to write (journalism), freedom to pinpoint (criticize), freedom to move freely and freedom to leave and return to the country. Indeed, Isayas forced Eritreans to surrender everything associated with freedom, not even free to enjoy their monies in their bank accounts. Isayas has defeated all Eritreans of his generation but, for sure, the new generation is resisting and showing success in denying Isayas subservience and passiveness because they know that when thoughts do not speak (the right to write and the right to express thoughts), it is worse than slavery.

    • Wedi Agazi November 2, 2016

      Z.Hagos – Z.Kebti,
      Let’s seriously pray for you that you don’t wait another 75 yrs to see a paradise Eritrea on earth! Any similarity between you and a human is purely coincidental!
      Now professor of the kebti, please enlighten us from your enormous knowledge and experience of 75 yrs history as to why did Eritreans wait until 1960 – 70 to start a revolution of freedom if they were really and truly colonized by Ethiopians? In other word, why didn’t the super Eritreans rise and revolt against the fascist Italian or the British? Why there was no any liberation fronts or movement against the white colonizer Europeans? Could it be that because as Eritreans were white Europeans that they felt there was no need or they were busy licking the white man’s boots?
      And also please enlighten us as to why Eritreans fight for freedom, justice and independence took so long while other African people’s fight for independence took a lot lot less than 30 or your 55 yrs? Once you share your brilliant and incredible knowledge with us then we would be able to tell and accept your calculations as of a caveman or of a snake man.
      Last but not least, additional and facts to your caveman history, Fascist Italian created Eritrea by an act of Surgery; by severing it’s different peoples from those with whom their past had been linked and by grafting the amputated remnants to each other under the title of new filiyti special Eritrea with her fuluyat special fitret Eritreans.

      • Wedi Agazi November 2, 2016

        addition : additional and facts to your history of the 75 yrs.

    • Simon G. November 3, 2016

      Z. Hagos,
      It is actually a simple answer to your question.
      It is because they are not Eritreans. How would any Eritrean support to a person or group who is (are) emptying Eritrea. Would any sane Eritrean do that? Unless….

  • Haile stupid Drue November 2, 2016

    who cares no one going to,do nothing,the only thing they can,do begg him where is weyane rank

  • Haile stupid Drue November 2, 2016

    did you know COI fail the world,reject it no body mess with HGDF

  • Haile stupid Drue November 2, 2016

    ንሸይላ ከየመስገክዋ ክሐልፍ አይደልን ምኽኒያቱ ንጁቡቲን ወያነን ብዛዕባ ኤርትራ ክምስክራ ስለ ዘቅረበተን አይፈለጠትን ወይ ዝመኽራ ሲኢና እምበር ዐለም ብናይ ወያነ ምቅታል ንጹሀት ሰባት ተሻቂላ ኮላ ንወያነ ብናይ ኤርትራ ምግሀስ መሰል ወዲ ሰብ ክትምስክር ብምቅራባ ንዐለም አቆጢዑ ንኤርትራ ድማ ናይ ዐወት ብስራት ኮይኑ

    • Ghirmay November 2, 2016

      Why is the Eritrean shepherd often depicted as a backward human being? The prove is on this backward zombie talking and writing as human but operated by digitally functioning switch.
      Stupid HaKhli dimu, you suffer so much from acute cow disease as you’ve been eating too much sick hamburgers as well as sleeping on sick hamburgers.
      In future, just call yourself the big/strong ‘HaKhli Dimu’ without the Haile Derue please!

    • Simon G. November 3, 2016

      Try a better name that fits you, say Tesfamichael stupid Gerahtu or Mesfin stupid Hagos or Kesete stupid Tesfmariam, or you get the point.

  • Z. Hagos November 3, 2016

    A call to all justice seekers,
    Assenna is your home. If you don’t keep Assenna clean, who will? So, please out flood those who are writing from the desks of the tyrant’s embassy. These zombies are empty minded and every time they utter a word, they are exposing themselves that they don’t have any substance to explain and support their side.
    They are behaving like they idiots to distract what’s going on. The justice seekers with the truth on their side, they can save these zombies. Yes, the justice seekers should know that they are empowered to defeat these empty minded zombies and sleep-writers by writing clean, explaining to the point, and playing politics clean.. No one in his/her right mind would write the way they are writing. They must be the lowest of the lowest people to be writing such trashy things.. After all, these agents who are said to be involved in killing and abusing our people, their abusive and trash writings to distract discussion are nothing of any crime. If they would know about what engaging the enemies means, they would have taken this opportunity to engage the justice seekers and make their points. But their failure to do so is an evidence that they don’t have the needed capability and capacity to meet the required standard, just like what the COIE of the UN is saying. That means, the UN is right to identify their incompetence as the cause for failing the country and, therefore, the UN and its different departments have to send trainers to train them how to behave like human beings, how to engage themselves in discussions with the world and how to be tamed to become less wild when visiting others websites..

  • k.tewolde November 3, 2016

    Predator,exterminator,dictator,impostor…………….he is the embodiment of evil,the Lucifer who feeds of the decomposing corpses of his own….the eternal cauldron is waiting for him and his accomplices.

  • A H November 3, 2016

    ሓድሽ ነገር ካብቲ ንፈልጦ ኣይተገንዘብኩን እኳድኣ ካብቲ ንቡር ገበናት ዝተሓብኤን ዝተረስዔን ግን ንጹር ኮይኑ ይረኤ ኣሎ።

    ዝተሓብኡ ገበናት፡-
    * ኣቐዲሞም ኣብ ሰውራ ስጉምቲ ተወሲዱሎም ዝተባህሉ ገና ኣብ ትሕቲ መሬት ቀለብ ናይ ኤሱ መደለብ ኣእምሮን መርወይ ንያቱን ይጥቀመሎም ከም ዘሎ ብሩህዩ።

    * ንዝኣሰሮም ብጾቱ ካብ ግዜ ናብ ግዜ እናገማጠለ ንኽብሪ ኣንስቶም እደፍር ምህላዉ፡ ወላቶም ኣገልገልቱ ክሕጭጭሉ ይስማዕዩ።

    ሓደ ሓደ ግዜውን ንሃሱሳን ጀነራላቱ እናጸውዔ ንዝደልዮም ሰባት እምብይታ ዘስምዑ፡ ከጋፎዑወን ይእዝዝሞ፡ ደሕሪ ባይታ ኾይኑ ድማ ይፍሳህን ይረውን። ከመይ ኣረሚን ብስቅያት ደቂ ሰባት እናተፈስሄ ዝነብር ይመስለኩም!!!!!

    ሸውሃቱ ከርሕብ፡ ሓደ ሓደ ግዜውን ኣብ ባር፡ እንዳቡን መሳሊ እናኸደ መሳኪን ደቅና ክሃድን ይውዕል፡ ሑሉፍ ሓሊፉውን ኣብ ትልሂት ከም በዓል ሻምሩቕ፡ ኣጓዱ፡ ሰዪድሺ፡ ፍይፍ ስታርስ ካብ ሓለውቱ ሞሊቑ ዝገብሮ ጸይቅታት ኣዲኡ ትቑጸረሉምበር፡ ዝተዓዘቡዎ ሰባት ኣንታ ኣብ ሎሚ በጺሔንዶ ተን እንቛቑሑ ተገታቲረን፡ ወይ ጉድ፡ እዝስ ኣይምርቓ ኣይመርገም እናበሉ ከም ዘግባዕብዑ ናይ ዕዳጋ ምስጢርዩ።

    ብተወሰጠለይ ካልቾድዩ ጉስጢ ወይ ጥርሙዝ ጊርካ ሰባት ምህሳይኳ ሓንቲ ካብተን ሑሉፍ ወይ ማራ ዝጥቀመለን ስልትታቱየን፡ ወዳጀ ኤሱ፡ መርገም ወዲ ገረወኛን ናይዝግን ዓሊ ሰይድን ኑርሕሸንን ኣቦና ሮሞዳንን ይብጻሕካስከ።

    ንሃሱሳቱ ልኢኹ፡ በሉስከ ገለስከ ኣብታ ዝፈትዋ/ትፈትዋ መስተ ኣንጥቡሎም ኢሉ፡ ግዜ ሓልዩ ዘሳናብቶም፡ ናይ ኣብራር ደርፊ ወይ ግዜ ትዝከረኒ

    ንልሙሳቱሞኸኣ ንበይኑዩ፡ እንተዘይዘከርኩዎም ይሓይሽ፡ ከም ሰብ ደቂ ሰባት ሙዃኖም ኣይተርፍንዩሞ፡ ንኻልእ መዕልቲ ምጽባይ ይሓይሽ፡ ሕጂስ ግዜ ከይንበልዕ ከምኒ ስጥመት ልቢ፡ ክሃድም ጥይት ዓንቂፋቶ፡ ህርመት ኣእምሮን ካልኦት ወራያት ሓረጋትን።

    ሑሉፍ ሓሊፉ፡ ቲህዝቢ ይሃድመሉ ከምዘሎ ምስተሰቆሮ፡ ዶባት ያኢ ባዛብእ ደቂ ሰባት ዘይተሓለወስ፡ ብኣዛብእ ኬንያ ክሕሎ፡ ካብ ኬንያ ኣዛብእ ተኻርዩለይ፡ ጉድካ በዚሑ ኤሱ፡ ንዚ ሕያዋይ በጊዕ ህዝቢ፡ እምኒ ጸቒጥቃዮ ምዕይ ዘይብል፡ እዚዩ ዓስቡ፡ ካብ መዕስከ ስምዒት ናይ ኤሪትራውያን ሃልዩካ ወይ ሓዲሩካ ይፈልጥ፡ ርጉም ቴምቤን፡ ከማኻ ቴምቤናዊኳ ሰሚዔን ርእየን ኣይፈልጥን። ንዜጋኡ ደኣምበር ንቴምበናይ ምንካእ ከምዘይኮንኩ ተረድኡለይ፡ ምስ ይቕሬታ።

    ብቓጻ ብኣካል ጥይት የጉርስዩ ይበሃል ግን ጭብጢ ዘይብሉ ነገር ምስማይ የሕትትዩ።

    እዚ ስርዓት ዶራንን በዳን ስርዓት ምዃኑ ንሃሱሳቱ ምኒስተራት፡ ኣመሓደርትን ከምኡውን ንጀነራላቱ ከይተረፈ ብጋህዲ ይብድህዩ። ወዮ ሃሱሳን ብጋህዲ ክብሉዎን ክምልስሉን ስለ ዘሸግሮም፡ ተሓቢኦም ግን ደይሞ ስርዓትካዩ ንምባል ኣብ ቤት መስተ ይኹን ምስ መሓዙቶም በጨቕ ስለ ዝብሎም፡ ታወረ ተመሊሳ ንኤሱ ትበጽሕ። ንሱውን ግደኡ ኣብ ልዕሊኦም ግዳያት ይፍጽም፡ ዝገርምዩ፡ በልስከ መን መሃሮ እዚ ኹሉ እከያት፡ ኣብ ደቁዶ የመሓላልፎ ይኸውን፡ ራዛ ናይ ኣቧኡ ሓዛ ከይከውን ይስከፍየ፡ ምንትምንታይሲ፡ ተመሊሶም ንሱ ምስ ሓለፈ ከይሳሃሉና ወይውን ህዝቢ ብሰንኩ ንመላእ ዓሌቱ ብዘይግቦኦም ብሕርቃን ክየጽንትዎም ስል ዝተሰከፍኩየ። ከሉ ወዮ ኮይኑና ኣንታይ ይገበር ኢልኩሞ፡ ኩሉ ንጋዶ።

    መጽሓፍቲ ምተጽሕፈ ብእከይ ተግባራቱ፡ ጸበልካ ኣይልከየናዩ ዘብልዩ፡ ተስፋ እገብር ስድርኡውን ከምኡ ክብሉዎ።

    ዝተረስዑ ገበናት
    ኤሱ ነዚ ኹሉ ገበናት፡ ዘይተነግረ ምበር ዘይተገብረ የለን ከም ዝበሃል፡ መጋብርቱ ህያው ሰለ ዘለዉ ባዕሎም ክገልጽዉ የማሕጽን።

    • k.tewolde November 3, 2016

      I feel you A H,that is the reason why those African countries run by dictators like him are dropping from ICC like flies,because they have this filth to hide.They might have won the terrestrial contest for now,but eternal ICC is waiting for them.Like you said,repent before your time runs out on this earth.

  • koubrom November 3, 2016

    Bad news,bad news,to all kedemti woyane and tigrayan origin pretending to be eritrean the mighty shabia won again sheila the witch has been rejected ,to dogs just keep barking this what left for you ,for those for refugee paper have betray their country and their people have you learn some now .glory to our leaders ,glory to our lion and lionness young eritrean diplomat defending fiercely we their teachers and father yemane ,those are the one who inherit the tomorrow eritrea
    Awate ne hafash

    • PH November 3, 2016

      Koubrom, now you are exposed ( as the true eritrean Z. HAGOS ) expected and Mr AHMED SALEH olso gave the best name Nefahito that really belongs to you. I personally know when, from where country you write. be careful.

      • Koubrom November 13, 2016

        Be careful?? Hahah what would you do coward I swear you are nothing to me ,nefahito feet you dog your are agame claiming her to be Eritrean to meslead our people just hide and lie this is was left for you .
        agameland will be soon destroyed no where to go hein never come to Eritrea coward

  • stefanos temolso November 3, 2016

    መትከላት ናይቶም መስተውዓልቲ ወይ ለባማት ደቂሰብ ኣብ ህዝቢ፡ ኣብ ሃገር፡ ኣብ ስነሓሳብ ወዘተ እዩ ዝምርኰስ። ገለ ሰባት ግን ኣብ ውልቀሰብ ኣሚኖም ክካትዑ ይውዕሉ። ነዞም ሰባት እዚኦም እንታይ ኢልና ክንጽውዖም ንኽእል? መዓስ ከም ዝልብሙ’ውን እዝግሄር ዋናኦም። እቲ ቀንዲ መለልዪኦም ድማ ኣብ ልዕል’ቲ ውልቀመላኺ ዘሎዎም እምነት ኣብ ጥቕሚ ዝተመርኰሰ ስለ ዝኾነ፡ ጥቕሞ ክትንከፍ ከሎ ዘልሓጥ ክብሉ ይረኣዩ። ህዝቦም እናተሳቐአየ ከሎ ሃገር ትለምዕ ኣላ ኢሎም ዝዛረቡ እዮም። ኣብ ምዕቡልን ደሞክራሲ ዘስተማቕሩሉን ሃገራት እናነበሩ ንህዝቦም ግን መሰል ናይ ምዝራብ ይነፍጉ። ተገምጢሎም ነተን ዝነብሩለን ዘለዉ መሰሎም ዝሕልዋ ዘለዋ ሃገራት ክወቕሱወን ይስምዑ።

  • Birhane November 3, 2016

    PFDJ is far beyond brutal jailer of Journalists, it has committed crimes against humanity. Lead by Issayas Afeworki A brutal, a tyrant, a dictator a fascist whose Genocide case is active. Yemane Gebreab and others will have to face charges of crimes against humanity soon!.

    • Koubrom November 13, 2016

      Really ?
      Where is the proof ? And why the coi had been rejected ?
      Because their is no proof you moron but how can you understand that
      Just keep barking your lie shameless

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