(JED/IFEX) – On Tuesday 27 June 2000, at about midday (local time), José Kajangwa, director general of the national radio and television agency (Radiotélévision nationale congolaise, RTNC), a public station, was briefly detained by officers of the National Congolese Police (Police nationale congolaise, PNC). Two of Kajangwa’s colleagues, Ngandu Muyembe and Bambi Kabesa, assistant director […]
(JED/IFEX) – On Tuesday 27 June 2000, at about midday (local time), José Kajangwa, director general of the national radio and television agency (Radiotélévision nationale congolaise, RTNC), a public station, was briefly detained by officers of the National Congolese Police (Police nationale congolaise, PNC). Two of Kajangwa’s colleagues, Ngandu Muyembe and Bambi Kabesa, assistant director responsible for content and reporter, respectively, were also arrested.
According to information collected from an RTNC journalist who wished to remain anonymous, Kajangwa and his colleagues were blamed for the broadcast of an interview with a leader of the Federation of Diamond Agents (Fédération des commissionnaires du diamant, FECODI) who criticised the government’s recent seizure of an expensive diamond owned by a businessman named Ngoyi Kasanji.
