(JED/IFEX) – On 11 November 2005, Patrice Booto, publisher of the Kinshasa-based newspaper “Le Journal” and its supplement “Pool Malebo”, was charged with spreading “false rumours” by the public prosecutor’s office of the State Security Court (CSE) in Kinshasa/Lingwala, where his case was referred on 10 November in the late afternoon. A magistrate questioned the […]
(JED/IFEX) – On 11 November 2005, Patrice Booto, publisher of the Kinshasa-based newspaper “Le Journal” and its supplement “Pool Malebo”, was charged with spreading “false rumours” by the public prosecutor’s office of the State Security Court (CSE) in Kinshasa/Lingwala, where his case was referred on 10 November in the late afternoon.
A magistrate questioned the journalist about articles published in the 16 to 19 September edition of “Le Journal” and the 15 to 20 September edition of “Pool Malebo”. These articles mentioned a US$30 million donation from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) “to the Republic of Tanzania’s education sector at a time when a labour conflict in the DRC pits the government against teachers’ unions.”
