(JED/IFEX) – Jean-Luc Kinyongo Saleh, publisher of the Kinshasa biweekly “Vision”, was arrested at his home on 8 November 2000, early in the morning, by two National Information Agency (Agence nationale de renseignements, ANR) officers. The officers took him to the internal security services’ cells, named “ANR/Fleuve”, in Kinshasa / Gombe. The journalist was released […]
(JED/IFEX) – Jean-Luc Kinyongo Saleh, publisher of the Kinshasa biweekly “Vision”, was arrested at his home on 8 November 2000, early in the morning, by two National Information Agency (Agence nationale de renseignements, ANR) officers. The officers took him to the internal security services’ cells, named “ANR/Fleuve”, in Kinshasa / Gombe. The journalist was released the same day at around 10:00 p.m. (local time), after signing a document in which he promised to no longer publish articles “which demobilise soldiers at the front, and which disturb members of the government”.
“Vision” published a lead article in its 11 October issue (no. 163) titled: “The Fall of Mbandaka”. In the pro-government article, journalist Berlin Atu-Atu wrote that if the city of Mbandaka were attacked, it would be fiercely defended. He went on to say that such an attack would constitute “a military pretext for the relaunch of war throughout the Congolese territory”.
