In July, the journalist David died from complications related to Romero Ellner COVID-19, while a 10-year sentence in Honduras serve defamation. The same month, life for Human Rights Reporter Azimjon Askarov died in prison in Kyrgyzstan after 10-year sentence on charges fabricated serve. Askarov fever symptoms and disability were to go, but the authorities have refused to test for COVID-19 Ellner and Askarov was among the many journalists remain imprisoned around the world, despite COVID-19 power distribution. A free press Coalition – a collection of nearly 40 news organizations, including calls for time world output of journalists detained during the pandemic. Monday ‘, the coalition added its August release his monthly list to keep track of the truth of the most urgent cases of journalists under fire around the world. Read below is descending in order of urgency: 1. Austin Tice (Syria) Eight years without updates regarding American reporter who died in Syria. This month mark missing eight years to free American photojournalist Austin Tice, while reporting on the civil war in Syria. The then 31-year-old had the Washington Post, McClatchy Publications and Al-Jazeera Inglese helped. Tice family believes that he is still alive, and the Department of State of the United States is also assuming that Tice is still alive. The F.B.I. He has offered to bring a reward on his return $1 million for information. 2. Maria Ressa (Philippines) publisher on trial an example to silence the independent media of the Philippine government. US-Philippine dual citizenship Maria Ressa back in court on July 30 for a second case of cyber defamation after a June 15 criminal conviction comes from an article published in 2012 your private news website, Rappler, said a man d ‘ local business compounds had reported a former judge. Ressa and his former colleague Reynaldo Santos Jr. had to pay each pay $7,950 and serve up to six years in prison; all this is already pending appeal. In July, more than 70 organizations have launched a campaign and petition in support of independent media under fire in the Philippines. 3. Azimjon Askarov (Kyrgyzstan) medical negligence caused the death of the journalist serving a life sentence. The award-winning journalist Azimjon Askarov died in prison at the age of 69 in July. Family members have long called for his release on the worsening health, quote, including fever and inability to walk in his final weeks, although Covid-19 testing authorities have refused to handle. The reporter of human rights had served 10 years of a life sentence, which was put into discussion and several times confirmed include for trumped-up charges, inciting ethnic hatred and complicity in the murder of a policeman. It was only the journalists imprisoned in the country and the first killed since 2007. 4. Roohollah Zam (Iran) condemns journalist to death appeal planning. Amad Message Manager and activist Roohallah Zam was sentenced to death on June 30, had been treated channel anti-government news at work on the App telegram messaging for popular when intelligence officers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards arrested him in October of last year. They brought 17 charges, including espionage, which works against the Islamic Republic with the governments of Israel, the US and France and the spread of corruption, which is provided by the execution of a criminal offense. His lawyer says they plan to appeal. 5. Agnès Ndirubusa and the team Iwacu (Burundi) court denied serving 2.5 years for four journalists complaint. In June, Burundi appeals courts in the case of Agnès Ndirubusa, head pointed to the desk and Iwacu political colleagues Christine Kamikazi, Egide Harerimana and Terence Mpozenzi. The four were arrested in October while covering clashes in Bubanza for the last of the independent organs of the country. The court sentenced in January attempting to undermine state security, so that condemns every $530 sentenced to 2.5 years in prison. 6. Svetlana Prokopyeva (Russia) reporter describes the harassment and intimidation as a conviction. Freelance journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva was found on July 6 of “justification of terrorism” in a brief comment on the 2018 repressive governments radicalization of young offenders. He described the allegations as “an act of intimidation.” One was searched her home and accounts frozen its Correspondent Regional Congress of the US-funded Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty in Russia, Prokopyeva was fined $7,000 computer and Mobile were not returned confiscated. 7. Aasif Sultan (India) journalist jailed for two years without trial. August 27 marks two years was accused behind bars for Aasif Sultan, a reporter of the month after his arrest in 2018 with the “complicity” in “harbor known terrorists.” Blackout of communication in Kashmir have repeatedly delayed hearings in the case. Sultan wrote a cover story for the narrator of Kashmir militant Kashmiri killed by the Indian security forces, whose murder sparked a wave of anti-government demonstrations in Kashmir in July 2016. E ‘was asked more than once questioned and reveal his sources from the police, 8. Omar Radi (Morocco) imprisoned independent journalist after repeated interrogations and intimidation. According to him summon for questioning, for the moment 10th, Moroccan authorities moved Omar Radi in court and then to a prison in Casablanca in July for rape, sexual assault, to receive foreign funding and cooperate with foreign intelligence. A reporter for the news website The independent excursions, Radi arrest comes after the authorities arrested several times and questioned him on a number of independent charges and allegedly violated his telephone. 9. Solafa Magdy (Egypt) The conditions of imprisonment journalists threaten the health and safety of Covid-19 Freelance journalist Magdy Solafa appeared with her husband last month in court, where he received a further test the extension of 45 days. She has experienced medical malpractice and inhumane conditions beside her husband in an Egyptian prison. This situation increases the risk of contracting Covid-19, an Egyptian journalist who has been infected with the virus and died in custody in July. His case is delayed for immigration coverage and human rights in Cairo since then arrest in November last year. Jamal Khashoggi (Saudi Arabia) seeking government information stays almost two years after journalist murder. CPJ presented in July shortly to confirm the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in the US intelligence agencies call or denied the existence of documents that can provide information on its awareness of the threats Jamal Khashoggi before his assassination. it was because the Washington Post brazenly killed Saudi Consulate in Istanbul in 2018, the United States and the United Nations have ignored calls for an independent criminal investigation into the possible involvement of the Saudi crown prince. Image copyright courtesy of Tice family
These are the 10 ‘cases of threats to press freedom in the world press in August 2020
