Sy Koumbo Singa Gali

Sy Koumbo Singa Gali (born 1961) is a Chadian human rights activist and journalist.[1][2] She had to leave for the south of Chad at a young age due to its civil war.[1] In 1982 she joined the Ministry of Information under Chad's new president, Hissène Habré.[1] She subsequently received training in Canada, Paris, Senegal, and the United States.[1] In 1987 she graduated from the l'Ecole de Journalisme in Dakar, and in 1988 she returned to Chad.[1] However, when Idriss Déby took power in Chad she stopped working for the Ministry of Information.[1] She worked for Prime Minister Jean Alingué Bawoyeu from 1991 to 1993, but lost her job when he resigned.[1] She joined the newspaper Contact, but after three years of working for them she left and started her own newspaper, called L'Observateur.[1] Since she published articles that criticized Déby's regime, in 1998 she was arrested for libel and imprisoned for ten days.[1] In 2001 she was elected as representative of a coalition of Chadian non-governmental organizations called Organisation des Acteurs Non Étatiques du Tchad.[1] In 2005 she was arrested on charges of inciting hatred for criticizing Déby, and was sentenced to a year in jail, but after protests from human rights groups she was released after 42 days imprisonment.[1][3][4] In 2007 she worked as a journalist for the UN Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; Professor Emmanuel Akyeampong; Mr. Steven J. Niven (2 February 2012). Dictionary of African Biography. OUP USA. pp. 413–. ISBN 978-0-19-538207-5.
  2. ↑ "A fourth journalist gets prison sentence". RSF. Retrieved 2016-06-03.
  3. ↑ Karin Deutsch Karlekar (2006). Freedom of the Press 2006: A Global Survey of Media Independence. Freedom House. pp. 71, 72–. ISBN 978-0-7425-5436-8.
  4. ↑ "Chad: La libertad de expresión, amenazada". Gloobal. Retrieved 2016-06-03.
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