a courageous investigation revealed a complex network of the criminal syndicates. of 77 percent dw, we've got some hot tips for your bucket list. magic corner check hot spot and some great culture memorials to w travel off we go. the welcome to the 7 to 7 percent. the platform for advocacy. you to talk about the issues that are important to us. but what happens when you're right to talk is surprised. i am michael t n on today's program. you want to focus on the freedom of expression and the young people who are fighting for the voice.

so here's what's coming up. with me, it's kind of union journalist paul shooter nearly died after being up doctor and beats into a fault in our street to be to find out why journalism in kind of room has become a life and death effect. and the spice of the high stakes involve some reports, se they won't be inflated, he needs one of them in south africa, the freedom of the press to do deal with is a cub know part of a need double crossing. it is important to draw attention to the grievances that directly affect you and i didn't come at room. you could be killed for exercise in the freedom to that is what happened to journalist martin. this is opal. my own colleague, medium muscle, was put on trial for her report and the child this way. let's a drop box on this on not us lucky. last year,

journalist polk utah was kidnapped and brutally assaulted by people who have been still being identified. but why did this happen in the 1st place? and one and some of you might find a story disturbing. this is the scene of the attack come meridian during the list and whistle blow a pole to, to was kidnapped. while watching a football match at a nearby cafe. on the men forcing into a cart and beat him up, brutally. he says they wanted to kill him, just literally up to the sea, follows that there was a motorcycle that's just around the corner. that's when they left and drove off to home and they were convinced that i was dead or she just before that they told me they had a mission and told me to say my last breath or somebody when you talk and say your last spray i, you know that means he's because i some to, to is still trying to find out who wanted to kill him. so far. no one has been arrested as evidence and she had documented unpublished pictures of his injuries.

this was not the 1st time he was a text, but it was the most brutal in he still carries both the physical and emotional sconce. mr moseley sees a trauma for life when i pass the display as i get flushed bucks of the time. why young ladies, even as guy here on the left side of my face, my eyes to suffer from the post traumatic lakehoma. and apart from that injurious, there is also uh, psychological trauma. what was your french 100 and 38th on the world press freedom index. kemah rude is rated one of the least free countries for press worldwide. investigative journalists like po, to, to often suffer from oppression by law enforcement. he already spent 24 months behind boss for alleged defamation. his friend and colleague watching a silvo publish documents about government corruption. he was killed at the same

spot which was what was left. look at them and they did the same thing to me of the, the 2 materials. if you know how he died, you can imagine this touch i was in when i was found, they took my costs. i was negative giving much each on this martinez has to eat his own faces, right? this is all of this clause. so we, it is the same kind of thoughts i went through because i was just like these officers advised me by passing the paper to, to, it continues to search for his attack cuz he wants justice. meanwhile, government authorities insist that the country is safe for journalists, but recent events prove otherwise. now, generally as live should hold the pull the government and come are willing to account. and in doing this, they gave you formation that helps you and i put the control of the future. unfortunately, since the staff of this yeah, to general list have been killed and 3 remaining deal income. everyone, industries, the street debates gladys see day and had

a pano. and y'all want to delve deeper into come, it was shrinking space for free speech and me to the young people who see that in spite of all these telling just a one stop report in the video to still welcome everyone in this edition of the 77 percent we are in the under the political capital of can the who is that you see good news of old. we ask you to discuss the issue of freedom of the press in the country, which on the last report being assaulted and tortured, many of them in prison, in jails across kinda room will some be sold to industrial. hey, don't this your that's why they do come a whole know it's been my push it duplex don't listen to both to, to who has an experience to share with us. he was in prison due to his work as a journalist, going exhausted, he said, do see false. you know how cool kind of what happened. you'll see law in 2019. i

was in prison abducted over night, but police officers in plain clothes too heavy with those a lot on to or any pass someone's injury. oh, rules were validated to start out. we and i spent 2 years in prison on went to trials 27 times. and in the end, i was condemned to centers that are already been determined upon my risk. so, okay, put it as google, but when would you tell us what you were accused of as a journalist is showing that he looked i'm always tentatively, a complaint was filed by mrs. kelly's the right to accuse me of defending hot, full social media on and on. but the allegedly, the, from a through text in question one, not even mind. i was a political prisoner what she did, just reset the empties when you 40 to read. i mean, it's not 10 to dennis of bob who is the director of national media observatory at the ministry of communication in kind of route. i mean, because you don't. ok. mahoney don't, didn't want to tell us. do you think the journalist, us safe income really to come home? us lopez in the camera, rooney and press today. but if you read the headlines,

this 2 trends can be observed. we probably note that there was a very strong instrumental ization of the press today, which is taken hostage by a certain number of loveliest, by political and economic forces, which have unfortunately transformed the camera. rooney and press into a forum where a certain number of conflict of problems and of let's say, social concerns are conveyed. we condemn it. we read credits, but that's the landscape of suppressed today. would be nipple cool. why a journalist been killed the keystone to assess, he knew only been one of the right country squared gentlest glories on issue became afraid to damage it when it's under this report about the mismanagement of public funds. it also, i believe it was due to an investigation, i can kind of determine this on who's seen as a freight team and that's, that's all a notes. all right, and let's also note that report us without borders has observed a sharp decline in press freedom income, a room in re send yet hers. i need,

i don't know so crystal, you became a journalist not too long ago considering this context where you ever attempted to give up and do something else. all seem like it's true that at some point i felt the pressure for my family to do just for i'm often when my father was here that a journalist happened mother, he would call me and asked if i was really show of my decision to become a journalist and really it's gary's a way most of the bill. no, paul said dollar role is to remind the public of the government's promises and check if they are being can i speak to it? look, see, or fremont if we do our job and are seen as a threat to the power there's a problem. well, yeah, probably the yeah, problem to do as you do so the is a problem according to crystal. they'll also trade union speaking up for journalists, and that's the case with t i c, u, a trade union as, as you openly acknowledge problem. so tell us as a trade union this, did you conveyed the gentleman's grievances to the ministry of communication for

example. and what reaction did you receive as schools? i'd be a host, you see. so volley for a while, saw me the book with you need a lot of courage to raise certain questions. perhaps before listing the various claims we have made, i would like to briefly point out that between 20192023, we've identified 15 journalists and camera room whose rights were violated. out of the 57 of them have lost their lives and atrocious condition. sit open, would you like you done because you so i told the shop for every time such a case has surface, we have to come room journalists, trade union have always taken a stand to challenge the government on the issues of journalists, protection and working conditions, all the time it was a big eskoville protect golf course, and today, what do we want? we would like to build a society with the press of parking development instead of a press that simply accompanies and the plots everything. the government does. it is important to have them into the kuta who can hold up a mirror to come

a room in society and challenge the government if they're headed in the wrong direction. can serve as a custodian of society for the past when deputy put the scene to get dressed was 11001 interlocutor to the could be and is the supervisory ministry, the ministry of communication. i come back to you then as does the press play, it's real or 4th power in camera room. is it possible to really give this power to the press in this country or allowed a place those to be read or the press is a construction where everyone must be able to play their role. the government plays its role. you can't say that when the government apply such measure as the presto to represent anything. but the problem arises in the way the profession is exercised. if i don't believe there is a police such as are behind every journalist and cameron, i don't think so. i'll conclude by saying that there are certainly difficulties. yes, we talked about the case of marching, ne and other cases, and we must be careful to keep in mind questions of common law there on names that have been cited by a number of journalists. they weren't in prison because of their reporting,

but because they were involved in other things, there's always that feeling sorry for the long answer. i will conclude by saying that i think the gloomy picture that is being painted does not reflect reality. even if i understand and share the perspective that the exercise of this profession and come a room is not yet what the government would like it to cook. so cool down the most with that i can. so for the shoot that well to, to, after your release from prison, income a room, you continue to work as a journalist on itself. he was available to you. yeah, exactly. i'll focus on at least i don't feel today. what do you expect from the camera? rooney and government, when it gets to level peoples on, on duty and we could wait for these government to act, but you have to be objective unrealistic because you know, i have been assaulted at least 5 times and every time i have 5 complaints with the police and in court, it, depots, the plant, look, i'm on, don't enter this, that it did not lead to any results. my complaints will never had any way. so you understand that silence rules. it must be said that we leave the deadly environment

. you know, so when we will say something that doesn't suit the system, you will get beaten up from. there is a kind of demo place forward hanging off of your head. if you selected the thank you photo tab and on the side of the ministry of communication, do you understand the grievances of the journalist? what should be done to ensure the safety and what should be done to preserve this profession and come a room? is a component. who did i place? sure, well i understand the grievances of the press sometimes that the press feels threatened that the press needs more state protection. if i don't agree with my brother shooter who claims that i don't mean what i say or that we aren't doing anything, we intervene in different ways to prove side support and help journalists. but freedom is a conflict tool field. it's a trajectory with many pitfalls and it's up to everyone to play their role as much as the state is expected to do its job. journalists are expected to do this. it is only together that we will be able to build a society of freedom,

a society of democracy because that will allow the vehicle students to sit in the bathroom and to see if they didn't see that most loved ones. well finally, according to you, we need to find a middle ground between the gentleman who must do their job well and the ministry which will accompany the kind of slowly ceiling though. so how can we ultimately achieve freedom of the press was called to, to, why do you pursue your work if you feel your life is in danger? the at the on bushy city, the only way i have to defend myself. i keep walking because i know that i am secretary much as we say, walking with my coughing and will say, what else do you want me to do this up here despite us, we must not given to fax. we must commit to us as to what the french poetry slot my grand comb allowed. if we did not change our environmental environment kind of changes, that means you have to fight for things to change them. but i'm going to show the show. thank you. so that was a very heated debate. do not hesitate to leave us a comment or send us a message to share your opinion. that's it for to date on the topic of freedom of the press income the room. see you soon. you have to

the being a journalist myself, i know that it takes an incredible amount of bravery to keep reports and especially when you're likely to be harassed, assaulted, or even killed. so thank you to all of the journalists who joined us for this to beat your resilience. it's inspiring. now you can watch a longer version of this to beat on. i youtube. also check out our oldest social media platforms, especially tick tock is now inside africa journalist implement little, much of funding has spent the last couple of years exposing rot in the countries electricity sector. his work has helped the country understand the problems that have led to the cost on waves of pockets. let's find out more now south have for cuz president single run the pose that has declared

a national does all stuff. how it got through affecting people at home on the roads at work to in the past few months as calm has been rationing power in stages. what stage 6, being the highest does leads the advocates without power for up to at least 10 hours a day. because most developed economy can not keep it's lights on as calm. the state on poly utility generates most of its electricity with the fleet of aging calls quiet politicians in the country is called about the province of them from a longer. however, these politicians are breaking down to an unprecedented treat journalist implemented. and then once you find the key is to 14 from the coal both and investigated. the underlying causes of this crisis. in contrast with the belief that the issue came fully from an payments problem, once you find that, i guess that the boot close nice into like to be within the energy sector. so we're looking at a plex site. this is where we've figured out that most of the coal slips happen.