>---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Tue, 05 Mar 96 19:18:38 -0800 >From: Joe Scoggin >To: kfs1@ra.msstate.edu >Subject: PANA News - Jailed Zambian Writer Wins Global Journalists Award > >http://www.nando.net/ans/pana/FEED/96C05020.html >> [Panafrican News Agency] >> >> News Stories | Environment | Economics | Science and Health | Sports >> | Africa Press Review >> >> 05 Mar 96 - Zambia-Journalist >> >> Jailed Zambian Writer Wins Global Journalists Award >> >> From Musengwa Kayaya; PANA Staff Correspondent >> >> LUSAKA, Zambia (PANA) - Detained 'Post' newspaper managing editor >> and editor-in-chief fred M'membe has been announced joint winner of >> the 1995 World Press Review international editor of the year. >> >> M'membe shares the prize with Nigerian Odako Olorunyomi of 'The >> News" newspaper in Lagos. >> >> A statement from the United States-based World Press Review monthly >> digest published Tuesday said that the two journalists would be >> formally honoured with the award in April. >> >> The award, which is sponsored by the Stanley Foundation of the >> United States, is given in recognition of individual journalists' >> contributions to upholding press freedom in the face all odds. >> >> M'membe in 1995 won the International Freedom Award given by the >> Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) in New York. >> >> The CPJ award is given to journalists recognised in their countries >> as uncompromising defenders of press freedom. >> >> The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) in 1995 also gave >> M'membe a similar award. >> >> M'membe and his managing editor Bright Mwape were Monday in Lusaka >> sent to an indefinite prison term by Zambian Speaker Robinson >> Nabulyato for alleged breach of parlimentary privilege in their >> newspaper articles in 1995. Nabulyato said the articles ridiculed >> the house. >> >> The Post newspaper has been at loggerheads with the Movement for >> Multiparty Democracy (MMD) government of president Frederick >> Chiluba. >> >> It has accused Chiluba and his government of corruption and drug >> trafficking, among others. >> >> The post in 1995 claimed Chiluba was a Zairen and that he maintained >> a Zairean concubine. >> >> Chiluba and his press-aide Richard Sakala have since sued the post >> for libel. >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> [AFRICA NEWS Online] [The NandO Times] > > > > > >