{"id":437980,"date":"2011-06-08T10:01:55","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T10:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/08\/editor-charged-with-incitement\/"},"modified":"2011-06-08T10:01:55","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T10:01:55","slug":"editor-charged-with-incitement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/08\/editor-charged-with-incitement\/","title":{"rendered":"Editor Charged with Incitement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"44.8204309657\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Commitee to Protect Journalists (New\u00a0York)<\/p>\n<p>8 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>press release<\/p>\n<p>Central African Republic authorities have charged the director of the independent weekly The Hills of Bangui, Faustin Bambou, with inciting hatred and disorder among the military forces and insulting the government, Bambou told CPJ.<\/p>\n<p>The director was sent directly to Ngaragba prison in the capital, Bangui. Four military policemen arrested Bambou at his office on May 27 and detained him at their Research and Investigations Department for 10 days before they presented him with any official charges, according to local journalists.<\/p>\n<p>Bambou wrote four articles from April to May 2011 about the Minister of Defense, Francis Bozize, alleging that Bozize had embezzled funds provided by the European Union. These funds were meant to cover pensions of retired military and police personnel, according to a joint statement released by the Union of Central African Journalists and the Observatory of Central African Media.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Bozize, who is also the son of the president, is suspected with having ordered Bambou\u2019s arrest, Bambou told CPJ. The Central African Republic decriminalized press offenses in 2005: Thus, there is no basis in the Republic\u2019s current laws for Bambou\u2019s detention.<\/p>\n<p>On May 17, government spokesman Alain-Georges Ngatoua criticized The Hills of Bangui and two other independent publications on national radio, accusing the publications of conducting a \u201csmear campaign\u201d against the defense minister, according to local reports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Imprisoning Faustin Bambou defies the Central African Republic&#8217;s own laws, which decriminalized press offenses six years ago,&#8221; said CPJ East Africa Consultant Tom Rhodes. &#8220;Authorities must provide Bambou with bail immediately.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In January 2008, Bangui\u2019s Magisterial Court sentenced Bambou to six months in prison for inciting, revolt, abuse and for defamation: Bambou had supposedly defamed the Central African Republic\u2019s Minister of Mining (now Minister of Foreign Affairs) by writing of his alleged embezzlement.<\/p>\n<p>The President pardoned Bambou the following month.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read the original:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106080290.html\" title=\"Editor Charged with Incitement\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Editor Charged with Incitement<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Commitee to Protect Journalists (New\u00a0York) 8 June 2011 press release Central African Republic authorities have charged the director of the independent weekly The Hills of Bangui, Faustin Bambou, with inciting hatred and disorder among the military forces and insulting the government, Bambou told CPJ. The director was sent directly to Ngaragba prison in the capital, Bangui. Four military policemen arrested Bambou at his office on May 27 and detained him at their Research and Investigations Department for 10 days before they presented him with any official charges, according to local journalists. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Editor Charged with Incitement - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/08\/editor-charged-with-incitement\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Editor Charged with Incitement - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Commitee to Protect Journalists (New\u00a0York) 8 June 2011 press release Central African Republic authorities have charged the director of the independent weekly The Hills of Bangui, Faustin Bambou, with inciting hatred and disorder among the military forces and insulting the government, Bambou told CPJ. 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