4 October 2006

TAKE ACTION! BURKINA FASO: JOURNALIST'S KILLER STILL AT LARGE


2 October 2006

RAP 21 (The African Press Network for the 21st Century), an initiative of the World Association of Newspapers, has launched an online letter-writing action to protest the impunity in the murder of journalist Norbert Zongo.

On 16 August 2006, an appeals court in Burkina Faso upheld a lower court ruling dismissing charges against the only suspect in Zongo's murder. Zongo was killed in 1998 after investigating allegations that François Compaoré, brother and special advisor to President Blaise Compaoré, took part in the January 1998 torture and killing of his driver, David Ouedraogo.

Sign the letter here: http://www.rap21.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=394

For more information, see:
- RSF: http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=18562
- CPJ: http://www.cpj.org/news/2006/africa/burkina20july06na.html
- Norbert Zongo Centre: http://www.cnpress-zongo.net/


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Burkina Faso

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West Africa

NIGERIA: Airport officials lock out journalists, hold equipment 9 February 2012 MAURITANIA: ANHRI condemns detention of activist 9 February 2012 NIGERIA: French journalists detained, thrown out of restive state 7 February 2012 CAMEROON: Coup charges against writer dropped, still faces military tribunal 7 February 2012 CÔTE D'IVOIRE: Two detained journalists released 3 February 2012


 
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