Chad On the 15 of the same month, the lady Editor In Chief of “L’Observateur” was condemned to one year imprisonment for having published an interview with one of the sentenced who described his arrest and condemnation as “machinations of Djandjawid”. Some illegal decisions are taken against the media. We can list the ban by the ministry of public security and immigration in October 2003 of the “FM Liberte” radio-station for “illegal operation and violation of the media law” while the station had received their operating licence and broadcasting frequency from the regulating unit of the High Media Council (HMC). GRADES Individual grades: 5, 2, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2 Average: 1,8 1.4. There is no law that limits / restricts any person of practicing or becoming a journalist ANALYSIS: There is no law limiting people from becoming journalists. According to law 29 “a professional journalist is a person who works mainly and lawfully for a newspaper or an audio-visual enterprise and is paid for it” (article 5). The correspondents are also easily integrated into profession of journalists (art 5). In accordance with article 9 of law 29, a collective labour agreement was freely negotiated between the media workers body and owners of newspapers, and was signed in May 2007. This convention that will be applicable in January 2008 defines the criteria for the exercise of this profession. 46 The African Media Barometer (AMB) - Chad 2007