The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) celebrates the seminal decision of the African Court on Human and People's Rights on 28 March 2014, which strongly re-affirms the obligation of countries to protect the rights of journalists to practice free from intimidation and harassment.
The decision of the Arusha-based Court, which is the highest judicial body on the continent, also granted justice to the wife and family of celebrated anti-corruption Burkinabe Journalist, Norbert Zongo, who was murdered in 1998. Even though subsequent investigations into the murder of the journalist implicated some Burkinabe government and security officials, the family of the deceased had, until the March 28 verdict, been denied justice.
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