{"id":572,"date":"2020-04-08T08:53:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T08:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp-staging.menarights.org\/81-medias-et-groupes-de-defense-des-droits-de-lhomme-exhortent-les-chefs-detat-africains\/"},"modified":"2020-04-08T08:58:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T08:58:19","slug":"81-medias-et-groupes-de-defense-des-droits-de-lhomme-exhortent-les-chefs-detat-africains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-staging.menarights.org\/fr\/81-medias-et-groupes-de-defense-des-droits-de-lhomme-exhortent-les-chefs-detat-africains\/","title":{"rendered":"81 m\u00e9dias et groupes de d\u00e9fense des droits de l&rsquo;homme exhortent les chefs d&rsquo;\u00c9tat africains \u00e0 lib\u00e9rer les journalistes emprisonn\u00e9s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dans le contexte de la pand\u00e9mie COVID-19, MENA Rights Group et 80 ONG appellent les dirigeants africains \u00e0 lib\u00e9rer tous les journalistes emprisonn\u00e9s, y compris en Alg\u00e9rie, aux Comores, en \u00c9gypte et au Maroc.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00c0 l\u2019attention du :<\/p>\n<p>Pr\u00e9sident de l\u2019Alg\u00e9rie Abdelmadjid Tebboune<\/p>\n<p>Pr\u00e9sident du B\u00e9nin Patrice Talon<\/p>\n<p>Pr\u00e9sident du Burundi Pierre Nkurunziza<\/p>\n<p>Pr\u00e9sident du Cameroun Paul Biya<\/p>\n<p>Pr\u00e9sident du Tchad Idriss Deby<\/p>\n<p>Pr\u00e9sident de l\u2019\u00c9gypte Abdel Fattah el-Sisi<\/p>\n<p>Pr\u00e9sident d\u2019\u00c9rythr\u00e9e Isaias Afwerki<\/p>\n<p>Premier ministre de l\u2019\u00c9thiopie Abiy Ahmed Ali<\/p>\n<p>Premier ministre du Maroc Saad-Eddine El Othmani<\/p>\n<p>Pr\u00e9sident du Rwanda Paul Kagame<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"more\">\n<p><em>Par courrier \u00e9lectronique<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Vos Excellences,<\/p>\n<p>Nous, les 81 organisations de m\u00e9dias, de d\u00e9fense de la libert\u00e9 de la presse et de d\u00e9fense des droits de l\u2019homme soussign\u00e9es, vous \u00e9crivons pour demander \u00e0 vos gouvernements respectifs de lib\u00e9rer tous les journalistes emprisonn\u00e9s dans vos pays, alors que la pand\u00e9mie du COVID-19 se propage dans le monde.<\/p>\n<p>La semaine derni\u00e8re, le Comit\u00e9 pour la protection des journalistes (CPJ) a publi\u00e9 une <a href=\"https:\/\/cpj.org\/2020\/03\/release-all-jailed-journalists-now.php\">lettre ouverte aux dirigeants mondiaux<\/a> les exhortant \u00e0 lib\u00e9rer imm\u00e9diatement tous les journalistes emprisonn\u00e9s dans le monde. \u00c9tant donn\u00e9 qu\u2019un nombre consid\u00e9rable de ces journalistes sont emprisonn\u00e9s sur le continent africain, nous r\u00e9it\u00e9rons cet appel lanc\u00e9 \u00e0 vos pays respectifs en cette p\u00e9riode extr\u00eamement pr\u00e9occupante pour la sant\u00e9 publique.<\/p>\n<p>Selon l\u2019<a href=\"https:\/\/cpj.org\/reports\/2019\/12\/journalists-jailed-china-turkey-saudi-arabia-egypt.php\">enqu\u00eate<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/cpj.org\/reports\/2019\/12\/journalists-jailed-china-turkey-saudi-arabia-egypt.php\"> <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/cpj.org\/reports\/2019\/12\/journalists-jailed-china-turkey-saudi-arabia-egypt.php\">annuelle<\/a> la plus r\u00e9cente r\u00e9alis\u00e9e par le CPJ le 1er d\u00e9cembre 2019, au moins 73 journalistes \u00e9taient emprisonn\u00e9s en Afrique, dont 26 en <a href=\"https:\/\/cpj.org\/data\/reports.php?status=Imprisoned&amp;cc_fips%5B%5D=EG&amp;start_year=2019&amp;end_year=2019&amp;group_by=location\">\u00c9gypte<\/a>, 16 en <a href=\"https:\/\/cpj.org\/data\/reports.php?status=Imprisoned&amp;cc_fips%5B%5D=ER&amp;start_year=2019&amp;end_year=2019&amp;group_by=location\">\u00c9rythr\u00e9e<\/a>, sept au <a href=\"https:\/\/cpj.org\/data\/reports.php?status=Imprisoned&amp;cc_fips%5B%5D=CM&amp;start_year=2019&amp;end_year=2019&amp;group_by=location\">Cameroun<\/a>, quatre au <a href=\"https:\/\/cpj.org\/data\/reports.php?status=Imprisoned&amp;cc_fips%5B%5D=RW&amp;start_year=2019&amp;end_year=2019&amp;group_by=location\">Rwanda<\/a>, au <a href=\"https:\/\/cpj.org\/data\/reports.php?status=Imprisoned&amp;cc_fips%5B%5D=BY&amp;start_year=2019&amp;end_year=2019&amp;group_by=location\">Burundi<\/a> et au <a href=\"https:\/\/cpj.org\/data\/reports.php?status=Imprisoned&amp;cc_fips%5B%5D=MO&amp;start_year=2019&amp;end_year=2019&amp;group_by=location\">Maroc<\/a>, trois en <a href=\"https:\/\/cpj.org\/data\/reports.php?status=Imprisoned&amp;cc_fips%5B%5D=AG&amp;start_year=2019&amp;end_year=2019&amp;group_by=location\">Alg\u00e9rie<\/a> et un au <a href=\"https:\/\/cpj.org\/data\/reports.php?status=Imprisoned&amp;cc_fips%5B%5D=BN&amp;start_year=2019&amp;end_year=2019&amp;group_by=location\">B\u00e9nin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cpj.org\/data\/reports.php?status=Imprisoned&amp;cc_fips%5B%5D=NI&amp;start_year=2019&amp;end_year=2019&amp;group_by=location\">Nig\u00e9ria<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cpj.org\/data\/reports.php?status=Imprisoned&amp;cc_fips%5B%5D=CD&amp;start_year=2019&amp;end_year=2019&amp;group_by=location\">Tchad<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cpj.org\/data\/reports.php?status=Imprisoned&amp;cc_fips%5B%5D=TZ&amp;start_year=2019&amp;end_year=2019&amp;group_by=location\">Tanzanie<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cpj.org\/data\/reports.php?status=Imprisoned&amp;cc_fips%5B%5D=ET&amp;start_year=2019&amp;end_year=2019&amp;group_by=location\">\u00c9thiopie<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cpj.org\/data\/reports.php?status=Imprisoned&amp;cc_fips%5B%5D=SO&amp;start_year=2019&amp;end_year=2019&amp;group_by=location\">Somalie<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cpj.org\/data\/people\/oubeidillah-mchangama\/index.php\">Comores<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cpj.org\/data\/reports.php?status=Imprisoned&amp;cc_fips%5B%5D=CG&amp;cc_fips%5B%5D=GB&amp;start_year=2019&amp;end_year=2019&amp;group_by=location\">R\u00e9publique d\u00e9mocratique du Congo<\/a> et <a href=\"https:\/\/cpj.org\/data\/people\/emmanuel-monychol-akop\/index.php\">Sud Soudan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Le 31 mars de cette ann\u00e9e, au moins 11 de ces journalistes avaient \u00e9t\u00e9 lib\u00e9r\u00e9s en Somalie, en \u00c9thiopie, en Tanzanie, au Nigeria, en RDC, en Alg\u00e9rie, aux Comores, au Soudan du Sud et en \u00c9gypte, selon la recherche du CPJ. Cependant, au moins six autres journalistes et travailleurs des m\u00e9dias ont \u00e9t\u00e9 emprisonn\u00e9s depuis le 1er d\u00e9cembre 2019 et se trouvaient toujours en prison le 31 mars, dont quatre <a href=\"https:\/\/cpj.org\/x\/833c\">en<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/cpj.org\/2020\/03\/two-journalists-and-a-driver-arrested-held-without.php\">\u00c9thiopie<\/a> et un au <a href=\"https:\/\/cpj.org\/2020\/03\/journalist-adalbert-hiol-jailed-since-november-in-.php\">Cameroun<\/a> et en <a href=\"https:\/\/cpj.org\/2020\/03\/rsf-correspondent-khaled-drareni-sentenced-to-inde.php\">Alg\u00e9rie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>L\u2019Article 16 de la Charte Africaine des Droits de l&rsquo;Homme et des Peuples <a href=\"https:\/\/www.achpr.org\/legalinstruments\/detail?id=49\" target=\"_blank\">stipule<\/a> que \u00ab Toute personne a le droit de jouir du meilleur \u00e9tat de sant\u00e9 physique et mentale qu&rsquo;elle soit capable d&rsquo;atteindre \u00bb. Ces droits ont \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9tendus aux prisonniers et d\u00e9tenus lorsque la Commission africaine a adopt\u00e9 la <a href=\"https:\/\/www.achpr.org\/sessions\/resolutions?id=24\" target=\"_blank\">R\u00e9solution sur les prisons en Afrique<\/a> de 1995.<\/p>\n<p>L\u2019Organisation mondiale de la sant\u00e9 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euro.who.int\/en\/health-topics\/health-emergencies\/pages\/news\/news\/2020\/03\/preventing-covid-19-outbreak-in-prisons-a-challenging-but-essential-task-for-authorities\" target=\"_blank\">d\u00e9clare <\/a> que \u00ab Les personnes priv\u00e9es de leur libert\u00e9 et celles qui vivent ou travaillent en milieu clos \u00e0 proximit\u00e9 de ces personnes sont plus vuln\u00e9rables que le reste de la population face \u00e0 la maladie \u00e0 virus COVID-19 \u00bb.<\/p>\n<p>Pour les journalistes emprisonn\u00e9s dans des pays touch\u00e9s par le virus, la libert\u00e9 est d\u00e9sormais une question de vie ou de mort. Les journalistes emprisonn\u00e9s n\u2019ont aucun contr\u00f4le sur leur environnement, ne peuvent pas choisir de s\u2019isoler et sont souvent priv\u00e9s des soins m\u00e9dicaux n\u00e9cessaires.<\/p>\n<p>Bon nombre de ces journalistes ont \u00e9t\u00e9 plac\u00e9s en d\u00e9tention, sans proc\u00e8s, pendant de longues p\u00e9riodes et souffrent de probl\u00e8mes de sant\u00e9 exacerb\u00e9s par des pathologies sous-jacentes et la surpopulation et les mauvaises conditions de d\u00e9tention dans les prisons dans lesquelles ils ont aussi contract\u00e9 le paludisme, la tuberculose et d\u2019autres maladies.<\/p>\n<p>Nous vous exhortons \u00e0 lib\u00e9rer chaque journaliste emprisonn\u00e9 dans vos pays respectifs et \u00e0 prot\u00e9ger la presse libre et la libre circulation de l\u2019information en cette p\u00e9riode cruciale. Le journalisme ne doit pas \u00eatre synonyme de peine de mort.<\/p>\n<p>Cordialement,<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf AccessNow<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf African Centre for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Africans Rising<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf amaBhungane Centre for Investigative Journalism<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Article 19<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Association des Journalistes Burundais en Exil (AJBE)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Association des journalistes du Burkina (AJB)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Association des journalistes ind\u00e9pendants du B\u00e9nin (AJIB)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Association for Human Rights in Ethiopia (AHRE)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Bloggers Association of Kenya (BAKE)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Cameroon Association of English-speaking Journalists (CAMASEJ)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Cameroon Community Media Network (CCMN)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Cellule Norbert Zongo pour le journalisme d&rsquo;investigation en Afrique de l&rsquo;Ouest\/Norbert Zongo Cell for Investigative Journalism in West Africa (CENOZO)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Center for Civil Liberties (Ukraine)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Centre for Human Rights &amp; Democracy in Africa (CHRDA)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf CIVICUS<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Civil Rights Defenders<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Coalition for Whistleblowers Protection &amp; Press Freedom (CWPPF)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO)- South Sudan<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Le Conseil national des patrons de presse du Togo (CONAPP)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Consortium of Ethiopian Human Rights Organisations (CEHRO)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf EG Justice<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Eswatini Editors\u2019 Forum<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Federation of Somali Journalists (FESOJ)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Free Press Initiative (FPI)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Gambia Press Union (GPU)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Groupe d\u2019Action pour le Progr\u00e8s et la Paix (GAPP-Afrique) (Canada, B\u00e9nin, Mali)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Guild of Professional Bloggers of Nigeria<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Human Rights Network for Journalists-Uganda (HRNJ-U)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Index on Censorship<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf INK Centre for Investigative Journalism (Botswana)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Institute for Media and Society (IMS)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf International Press Centre (IPC)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf International Press Institute (IPI)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf International Service for Human Rights (ISHR)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Internet Sans Frontieres (ISF)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Kenya Correspondents Association (KCA)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Kenya Editors\u2019 Guild (KEG)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Kenya Union of Journalists (KUJ)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf La Maison de la presse du Niger<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Laws and Rights Awareness Initiative (LRAI)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Ligue des journalistes Tchadiens<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf MARUAH (Singapore)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Media Council of Tanzania (MCT)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Media Monitoring Africa (MMA)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf MENA Rights Group<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Namibia Media Trust (NMT)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Odhikar (Bangladesh)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Observatoire de la Libert\u00e9 de la Presse en Afrique (OLPA)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf One Day Seyoum<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Organisation Patronale des M\u00e9dias du Gabon (OPAM)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Paradigm Initiative (PIN)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Patronat de la presse tchadienne<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf PEN Eritrea<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf PEN Nigeria<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Press Union of Liberia (PUL)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf R\u00e9seau des D\u00e9fenseurs des Droits de l&rsquo;Homme de l&rsquo;Afrique Centrale (REDHAC)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf R\u00e9seau des Journalistes Burundais pour la CPI (RJB-CPI)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf R\u00e9seau des Journalistes pour les Droits de l&rsquo;Homme en Centrafrique (RJDH-RCA)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Right2Know (South Africa)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf South African National Editors\u2019 Forum (SANEF)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Syndicat National des Journalistes Ind\u00e9pendants du Togo (SYNJIT)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Syndicat des Professionels de l&rsquo;Information et de la Communication du S\u00e9n\u00e9gal (SYNPICS)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Syndicat National des Professionnels de la Presse de C\u00f4te d&rsquo;Ivoire (SYNAPP-CI)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Syndicat National des Journalistes du Cameroun (SNJC)\/Cameroon Journalists\u2019 Trade Union (CJTU)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf The African Editors Forum (TAEF)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Tournons La Page (TLP)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Union Burundaise des Journalistes (UBJ)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Union of Tanzania Press Clubs (UTPC)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ)<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ)<\/p>\n<p>Cc:<\/p>\n<p>Le Pr\u00e9sident de l\u2019Union africain, Pr\u00e9sident Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa<\/p>\n<p>Le Pr\u00e9sident de la Commission de l\u2019Union africaine, Moussa Faki<\/p>\n<p>Le Secr\u00e9taire G\u00e9n\u00e9ral des Nations Unies, Antonio Guterres<\/p>\n<p>Le Directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l\u2019Organisation mondiale de la sant\u00e9, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dans le contexte de la pand\u00e9mie COVID-19, MENA Rights Group et 80 ONG appellent les dirigeants africains \u00e0 lib\u00e9rer tous les journalistes emprisonn\u00e9s, y compris en Alg\u00e9rie, aux Comores, en \u00c9gypte et au Maroc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_thinkrank_schema_form_data":"","_thinkrank_selected_schema_type":"","_thinkrank_additional_schemas":"","_thinkrank_canonical_url":"","_thinkrank_og_title":"","_thinkrank_og_description":"","_thinkrank_og_image":"","_thinkrank_twitter_title":"","_thinkrank_twitter_description":"","_thinkrank_twitter_image":"","_thinkrank_imported_from":"","_thinkrank_focus_keywords":[],"_thinkrank_focus_keyword":"","_thinkrank_robots_meta_enabled":0,"_thinkrank_robots_meta":"","_thinkrank_advanced_robots_meta":"","_thinkrank_exclude_from_search":0,"_thinkrank_exclude_from_archives":0,"_thinkrank_primary_category":0,"_xspeed_no_cache":false,"_xspeed_expiry_hours":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"ak_country":[],"french":[],"ak_topics":[218],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ak_topics-freedom-of-expression"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-staging.menarights.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-staging.menarights.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-staging.menarights.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-staging.menarights.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-staging.menarights.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp-staging.menarights.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-staging.menarights.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-staging.menarights.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-staging.menarights.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-staging.menarights.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"ak_country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-staging.menarights.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ak_country?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"french","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-staging.menarights.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/french?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"ak_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-staging.menarights.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ak_topics?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}