(JED/IFEX) – The Court of Military Order (Cour d’ordre militaire, COM), which made its first and final rulings on Tuesday 12 September 2000 in Kinshasa/Gombe, sentenced Emile-Aimé Kakese Vinalu (publisher of “Le Carrousel” newspaper) and Jean-Pierre Ekanga Mukuna (publisher of “La Tribune de la Nation” newspaper) to two years’ imprisonment. Another journalist, Richard Nsamba Olangi, […]
(JED/IFEX) – The Court of Military Order (Cour d’ordre militaire, COM), which made its first and final rulings on Tuesday 12 September 2000 in Kinshasa/Gombe, sentenced Emile-Aimé Kakese Vinalu (publisher of “Le Carrousel” newspaper) and Jean-Pierre Ekanga Mukuna (publisher of “La Tribune de la Nation” newspaper) to two years’ imprisonment.
Another journalist, Richard Nsamba Olangi, publisher of “Le Messager Africain” newspaper, was sentenced to one year in prison, and a six-month suspended sentence.
The COM also ordered “the confiscation of some of Nsamba Olangi’s belongings, which enabled them to charge the journalists with treason.”
Nicolas Katako, husband of the former minister of transportation, was also accused alongside the journalists. He received the same sentence as Nsamba Olangi.
