Folks,
SOPI SOPI has really gone sour! we should all be careful of politicians who often think they are indispensable to our political endeavours. Mr wadd has since forgotten the positive contributions that the private media made to "Alternance 2000".
Omar Joof.
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> Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 10:45:15 +0100
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> Subject: SENEGAL - Call for measures to defuse tension in runup to elections, after threats against two journalists
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> English only
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> Reporters Without Borders
> Press Release
>
> 5 December
>
> SENEGAL
>
> Call for measures to defuse tension in runup to
> elections, after threats against two journalists
>
> Reporters Without Borders today condemned two
> separate cases of threats against Senegalese
> journalists in the past two weeks. The targets
> were freelance reporter Dié Maty Fall, who works
> for the privately-owned newspapers Sud Quotidien,
> Le Populaire and L'As and the websites Rewmi.com
> and Nettali.net, and Pape Alé Niang, who presents
> the press review on privately-owned radio Sud FM.
>
> "Threats against journalists are always
> dangerous, regardless of their position, because
> journalists are often the first to fall victim to
> political hatred," the press freedom organisation
> said. "We call on the police to investigate these
> cases thoroughly in order to deter those who
> attack the media, to defuse tension and to calm
> people down in the runup to the elections."
>
> Fall told Reporters Without Borders that her
> mother received three anonymous calls on 25
> November. The first caller, a woman, asked if
> "your daughter is at home." A subsequent caller
> said: "Tell your daughter to calm down, to stop
> poking her nose everywhere and to mind her own
> business (...) otherwise something terrible will
> happen to her."
>
> Both Fall and her mother filed complaints
> "against persons unknown" at Dakar police
> headquarters.
>
> The former head of political coverage at the
> state-owned daily Le Soleil, Fall condemned
> "threats and insults against independent
> journalists." Deploring the seriousness of some
> of the insults, especially racial ones, she said:
> "I have never been afraid of threats, but it
> worries me when they affect my family." She added
> that government members had tried to bribe her
> several times in the course of her career.
>
> Niang said he was threatened by justice minister
> Cheikh Tidiane Sy at a meeting of the ruling
> Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS) on 22 November
> that was attended by the president. He said Sy
> had called for him to be "given a hiding" because
> of his "disrespectful" press review.
>
> --
> Leonard VINCENT
> Bureau Afrique / Africa desk
> Reporters sans frontières / Reporters Without Borders
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> 75009 Paris, France
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