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Impunity Attacks
Human Rights Watch interviewed witnesses, civil society leaders, and government officials about police shootings that occurred in the wake of demonstrations against the Kenyan Supreme Court ruling on March 30 upholding President Uhuru Kenyatta's election victory.
Africa Highlights
On 2 May 2013, a crowd of opposition members was attacked with live bullets by police officers in Conakry. The political standoff between the government and the opposition intensifies as parliamentary elections drawn near.
Attacks
Pierre Havyarimana was stripped of his job as a police officer and given 15 years in jail after shooting a journalist who inquired about a roadblock in Bujumbura.
Free Expression & the LawOn 23 May 2013, Ugandan security operatives defied a court order demanding them to vacate the premises of Monitor publications, as they arrested five civil society members who were protesting the defiance.
Reporters Without Borders
ARTICLE 19
Kenya Access to Information Free Expression & the Law
22 May 2013
Human Rights Network for Journalists - Uganda
Media Rights Agenda
Media Foundation for West Africa
The Gambia Free Expression & the Law
16 May 2013
Reporters Without Borders
Equatorial Guinea Digital Rights Censorship
14 May 2013
Center for Media Studies and Peace Building
Liberia Free Expression & the Law
14 May 2013
Committee to Protect Journalists
Human Rights Network for Journalists - Uganda
Media Foundation for West Africa
Sierra Leone World Press Freedom Day
10 May 2013
Reporters Without Borders
Chad Senegal Digital Rights
10 May 2013
Center for Media Studies and Peace Building
Media Institute of Southern Africa
Center for Media Studies and Peace Building
Liberia Free Expression & the Law
9 May 2013
Human Rights Watch
South Sudan Censorship Free Expression & the Law
7 May 2013
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders
Writers in Prison Committee, PEN International
Chad Digital Rights
7 May 2013
Center for Media Studies and Peace Building
Human Rights Watch
Sudan World Press Freedom Day
3 May 2013
Media Institute of Southern Africa
Reporters Without Borders
Gabon Free Expression & the Law
3 May 2013
Committee to Protect Journalists
Ethiopia Free Expression & the Law
3 May 2013
ARTICLE 19
Somalia Impunity World Press Freedom Day
3 May 2013
National Union of Somali Journalists
Somalia World Press Freedom Day
3 May 2013
Human Rights Watch
Ethiopia World Press Freedom Day
3 May 2013
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