NOMINATIONS INVITED FOR THE RMNP SADIQ PRESS FREEDOM AWARD

The Rural Media Network Pakistan (RMNP) has invited nominations for its annual Sadiq Press Freedom Award. 

The award, instituted by RMNP  with support of  WORLD ASSOCIATION OF NEWSPAPERS AND NEWS PUBLISHERS  carries a cash award of US $ 1500 , (PKR  125,000). The award will be announced on September 5, 2011.

The Sadiq Press Freedom Award  is intended to honour a person,…

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Ugandan journalist who mysteriously disappeared on  July 13 , 2011 is being held by an anti-terrorist unit on suspicion of involvement in “subversive” activities

Augustine “Rouks” Okello, a presenter on Lira-based Radio Rhino FM is being held in an undisclosed location in Kampala by the Joint Anti-Terrorism Taskforce (JATT), which still has not taken him before a judge.

Okello was arrested as part of a probe into the death of Edison Muzoora, a dissident colonel who deserted the…

An editor with state-owned Ethiopian Radio and Television Agency (ERTA) Haileyesus Worku,, and one of his reporters, Abdulsemed Mohammed, were last week  finally released on bail of 5,000 birr (205 euros) after being held for 15 months on charges of illegally selling state-owned news content for personal gain.

 The court has scheduled a hearing for November 12, 2011 to hear defense arguments. The two journalists are meanwhile banned from leaving the country. They were arrested on…

Sudanese journalist Amal Habani, a woman reporter for the daily Al-Jarida has been fined  2,000 pounds (600 euros) or a month in jail for reporting a woman activist’s claims that she was raped by members of the security forces.

As Habani refused to pay the fine, she was immediately taken to Omdurman women’s prison, northwest of the capital, to begin serving the jail sentence. Habani was convicted by Judge Modather Al-Rasheed of the Khartoum media court, who fined her editor, Saadeldin…

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