These are the 10 ‘cases of threats to press freedom in the world press in September 2020

Farhad Hamo, a journalist working for Kurdish-free radio station, was to be seen recently taken from a Syrian prison in March 2015 by a cameraman who was as released in a prisoner exchange. The members of the militant group Islamic State Hamo kidnapped more than five years ago, while he and another reporter went to interview a local political leaders in northern Syria. The duo was threatened at gunpoint during a security check and told to drive to a town where they were captured later. An Islamic State Court sentenced to death by beheading. Hamo destiny and well being remains unknown. Hamo story is just one of at least 64 cases of journalists missing worldwide, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Some, like journalist Ibraimo Mbaruco, just went a few months ago in Mozambique fail to leave after work and informed a colleague that “surrounded by soldiers.” Others, such as newspaper reporter María Esther Aguilar Cansimbe have for more than a decade is missing. Cansimbe, mother of two, has been researching the allegations of police abuse in Mexico. To remember these journalists, CPJ launched a campaign #MissingNotForgotten on August 30 to tell his stories and pressure authorities to continue their disappearance although the investigation pandemic has slowed or stopped the progress of the investigation. A Free Press Coalition helps turn a collection of about 40 news agencies, including the stories keep journalists missing in life by a monthly list of the worst cases of attacks on press freedom by keeping the world. Here are 10 of the most urgent cases of missing journalists from around the world right now. 1. Prageeth Eknelygoda (Sri Lanka) journalist, cartoonist and journalist abducted to leave more than 10 years after his house. Prageeth Eknelygoda, cartoonist and columnist for online news outlet Lanka eNews, was last seen by his wife and two teenage children, as he left his home for work for more than 10 years. In advance of the presidential elections of 2010, employees Lanka eNews faced intimidation for his opposition by the Mahinda Rajapakse government. Last year, the attorney general indicted seven people on Eknelygoda kidnapping, and the process is not yet complete. In the last six months, Eknelygoda woman Sandya said witnesses believed the case were intimidated, and that the threats to them and monitor their family were increased. 2. effects Daysi Lizeth Mina Huamán (Peru) Journalist found days after his death, seven months ago. Daysi Lizeth Mina Huamán last waiting for a bus on January 26 on the road saw her boyfriend after the vote in the election of the Congress of Peru and the submission of meeting a report by television station via cable VRAEM in the central town of Ayacucho. About a week after the disappearance of family members found her identity card and other personal documents along the side of a road between the bus station and their destination. 3. Farhad Hamo (Syria) in 2014 freelance journalist kidnapped last from a prison taken away to be seen. December 2014 kidnapped members of the militant group Islamic State, two freelance journalists working for the broadcaster Kurdish Rudaw TV. The journalists were driving were interviewing a local political leader, he stood as gunmen examined the vehicle portable phones and computers of passengers and threatened them at gunpoint to drive to the city of Tel Hamis, where they were held prisoners. An Islamic State Court sentenced to death by beheading. Swivel Massoud Aqeel, who was later released in a prisoner exchange, the last time reporters saw Farhad Hamo is taken from Raqqa prison March 2015. 4. Vladijmir Legagneur (Haiti) investigations stalled over 2 years since the disappearance photojournalist . Freelance photojournalist Vladjimir Legagneur was last seen by his wife in March 2018, after he left Port-au-Prince home. After a colleague Legagneur in the Grand Canyon, for the high activity rates of violent gangs he was working on a well-known independent project. A police spokesman said that after skeletons “a fatal outcome feared” and a hat of this month near the site of the disappearance Legagneur found, but not give the final official results from the evidence collected and the known DNA test. There is no evidence of further investigation. 5. María Esther Aguilar Cansimbe (Mexico) newspaper journalist who died nearly 11 years ago after police covering allegations of abuse. María Esther Aguilar Cansimbe, mother of two, was last in the central state of Michoacan in November 2009. He reported for regional news agencies, seen leaving his home, including Zamora newspaper El Diario de Zamora and national daily Change de Michoacan, and sometimes tend to focus on organized crime and corruption at the local level, omitting their awareness of possible retaliation right side. In the weeks before his death, the Aguilar reporting including allegations of police abuse and the sign of the military efforts. According to CPJ data, at least 14 journalists are currently missing in Mexico. 6. Jean Bigirimana (Burundi) journalist missing feared dead after four years. Jean Bigirimana has not been seen or heard from in July 2016, after receiving a call from an operating source of the country’s national intelligence and left his home in Bujumbura. The reporter for the independent weekly newspaper Iwacu previously worked for the pro-government Rema FM radio station. Sources say that the journalist was arrested by secret agents on charges of writing Burundian journalist living in exile in Rwanda and family members fear Bigirimana died. Four journalists Iwacu by government authorities are currently serving-a-2 and a half year prison sentenced a targeted manner. 7. Ibraimo Mbaruco (Mozambique) to the reporter went missing five months of work left. A reporter and news anchor for Community Radio Broadcaster Palma in the northern province of Cabo Delgado, Ibraimo Mbaruco died April 7 after the leave for work, and then to tell a colleague an SMS that was “surrounded by soldiers.” The brother of the journalist CPJ said that the local police reported missing, and the office of the provincial prosecutor but to get all the information on Ibraimo destiny and did not know if he was still alive. To date, the government has initiated a credible investigation. Mbaruco was also part of Sekelekani network, local civil society organization that trains journalists citizens. before, during a visa Oralgaisha Omarshanova 8 (Kazakhstan business trip) investigative journalist last 13 years. In March 2007 Oralgaisha Omarshanova that the pseudonym Oralgaisha Zhabagtaikyzy, wrote on rival ethnic clashes in the regions of Almaty, the financial capital of Kazakhstan used. How to get a business trip there colleagues from Astana ansässigem independent weekly Zakon i Pravosudiye (in the sense of “law and justice”), as last aspect Omarshanova Director Anti-Corruption Department in a vehicle. The following month, his brother said at a press conference that in the weeks before his death, Omarshanova had received several death threats by phone alarm to stop their reporting. 9. Azores Gwanda (Tanzania) study required for missing rural journalist for three years. The Tanzanian government has failed to conduct a credible by Azory Gwanda, professionals, had to investigate the mysterious murders in his community, went in June 2019 the Foreign Minister of Tanzania in 2017. In an interview to the BBC in the month November are missing, the reporter said in many were people who “disappeared and are dead”, which had, however, gave the minister later clarified saying his statements were taken out of context and that he did not know if the journalist He was alive or dead. The authorities did not respond to repeated requests for updates on the case CPJ. 10. Samir Kassab (Syria) Among the many unsolved cases in Syria, foreign journalists missing seven years. Samir Kassab, a Lebanese photographer working for the Abu Dhabi-based broadcaster Sky News Arabia, disappeared in October 2013 while reporting, as well as Mauritanian journalist Mokhtar Ould Iszhak Aleppo. Kassab girlfriend told CPJ in 2019 that no group has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of journalists. At least nine journalists are currently missing in Syria, a country that is also missing claims the largest number of foreign journalists. CPJ recently helped 60 Syrian journalists and their families to escape dangerous conditions and resettled in Europe.
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