(JED/IFEX) – Bonsange Ifonge Feu d’Or, a journalist from “L’Alarme”, was released on Monday 11 December 2000. However, he was asked to go to the public prosecutor’s office, which is located near the Court of Military Order (Cour d’ordre militaire, COM) in Kinshasa/Gombe, on Tuesday 12 December. Bonsange Ifonge was arrested on 12 November by […]
(JED/IFEX) – Bonsange Ifonge Feu d’Or, a journalist from “L’Alarme”, was released on Monday 11 December 2000. However, he was asked to go to the public prosecutor’s office, which is located near the Court of Military Order (Cour d’ordre militaire, COM) in Kinshasa/Gombe, on Tuesday 12 December.
Bonsange Ifonge was arrested on 12 November by National Information Agency (Agence nationale des renseignements, ANR) officers. He was taken to the CPRK (Kinshasa Penitentiary and Reeducation Centre, former Makala Central Prison) on 2 December.
To recall, Bonsange Ifonge was arrested because of an article published in mid-November in “L’Alerte Plus” (a supplement of “L’Alarme”) titled: “Tshisekedi [an opposition leader] states: Kabila will fall on 15 December 2000”. Previously, on 11 November, “L’Alarme” published a lead article titled: “Mbandaka is burning”. Mbandaka is the province of Equator’s main city, in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s north-west. The province is currently occupied in part by an armed rebellion. The ANR did not differentiate between “L’Alarme” and “L’Alerte Plus”.
The journalist was referred to the COM, which accused him of “threatening the internal security of the state”.
