(JED/IFEX) – On Thursday 8 November 2001, Gilbert Kasanda Kabala, an Agence congolaise de presse (ACP, official agency) journalist and the ACP’s permanent correspondent with Western Kasai province’s administration, was arrested in Kananga (capital of Western Kasai province, in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s central region). The journalist is being held in a cell at […]
(JED/IFEX) – On Thursday 8 November 2001, Gilbert Kasanda Kabala, an Agence congolaise de presse (ACP, official agency) journalist and the ACP’s permanent correspondent with Western Kasai province’s administration, was arrested in Kananga (capital of Western Kasai province, in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s central region). The journalist is being held in a cell at the National Congolese Police’s (Police nationale congolaise, PNC) local detachment.
According to information received by JED and confirmed in an Agence Presse Associée (APA, private agency) dispatch, the journalist is accused of having recounted the circumstances surrounding the rape of a woman in Kananga. He reported that seven PNC officers had raped a woman named Ngalula Nsapu in the city’s market.
