(RSF/IFEX) – RSF is protesting the arrest of two journalists in Pointe-Noire (in the country’s south-west). According to RSF’s information, on 31 May 1999, Hervé Kiminou-Missou, a correspondent with the panafrican radio station Africa N°1 for Angola, was arrested by the air and frontier police. The journalist, who is a Congolese national, was allegedly apprehended […]
(RSF/IFEX) – RSF is protesting the arrest of two journalists in Pointe-Noire
(in the country’s south-west).
According to RSF’s information, on 31 May 1999, Hervé Kiminou-Missou, a
correspondent with the panafrican radio station Africa N°1 for Angola, was
arrested by the air and frontier police. The journalist, who is a Congolese
national, was allegedly apprehended while trying to reach Cabinda, the
Angolan enclave where strong independence groups are active.
Kiminou-Missou was detained at the same time as Maurice Lemaire, a
journalist with Congolese national television and correspondent with the
international agency AITV. The two men are being held in solitary
confinement at the police station in Pointe-Noire’s autonomous port.
Recommended Action
Send appeals to the national police’s director-general:
journalists are immediately released
their
right to inform, as guaranteed in the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, two
treaties which have been ratified by the Republic of Congo
Appeals To
Colonel Jean-François Ndengué
National Police Director General
Ministry of the Interior
Brazzaville, Congo
Please copy appeals to the source if possible.
