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Electoral workers sit beside a ballot box at a polling station during the presidential election in N\u2019Djamena, Chad, on May 6, 2024. On October 9, the head of the country\u2019s media regulator issued a directive to suspend or revoke the licenses of outlets that share content online outside of narrowly defined circumstances. |Photo: Reuters\/Desire Danga Essigue|<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dakar, October 16, 2024<\/strong>\u2014The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Chadian authorities to reverse a\u00a0directive<\/a> announced on October 9 by Abderamane Barka,<\/strong>\u00a0president of the High Authority for Media and Audiovisual (HAMA) regulator, to suspend or revoke the licenses of outlets that share online content outside of narrowly defined circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cChad\u2019s media regulator should immediately reverse its directive to suspend outlets for sharing news in ways outside of those narrowly defined by authorities and cease efforts to censor the press ahead of elections,\u201d said Angela Quintal, head of CPJ\u2019s Africa program, in New York. \u201cAs Chadians go to the polls later this year, they should be given access to a plurality of diverse media sources and content, not a constricted version of the news.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barka ordered the suspension or revocation of licenses of private newspapers that broadcast audiovisual content online instead of written articles and of private outlets that broadcast content on Facebook that was not first distributed via their traditional newspaper, radio, or TV channels. He also demanded that all media outlets only employ journalists who have official press identity cards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barka said these measures are part of the ongoing cleaning up of Chad\u2019s media landscape as the country heads towards legislative, provincial, and municipal elections<\/a> on December 29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Chadian Online Media Association said in a statement<\/a> that the directive appears \u201cto go beyond the existing legal framework\u201d and could pose a risk to freedom of expression, noting that the country\u2019s press law<\/a> states that the online press provides \u201cmainly written and audiovisual\u201d content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier in October, HAMA banned<\/a> two managers of the private newspaper Le Visionnaire from practicing journalism for not having press cards and suspended the paper for three months over a report into government mismanagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CPJ\u2019s calls to Barka for comment on the directive went unanswered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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