(JED/IFEX) – The editor of the Kinshasa-based weekly “Tapis Rouge”, Feu D’or Bosange, was released on bail on 25 September 2006 at 5:00 p.m. (local time), after having spent 14 days in detention. According to his bail conditions, Bosange will have to appear every Tuesday and Thursday before the Kinshasa/Gombe High Court (TGI). On 12 […]
(JED/IFEX) – The editor of the Kinshasa-based weekly “Tapis Rouge”, Feu D’or Bosange, was released on bail on 25 September 2006 at 5:00 p.m. (local time), after having spent 14 days in detention. According to his bail conditions, Bosange will have to appear every Tuesday and Thursday before the Kinshasa/Gombe High Court (TGI).
On 12 September 2006, Bosange was arrested by judiciary inspectors and kept in a TGI cell before being transferred, on 16 September 2006, to a Kinshasa penitentiary (Centre Pénitentiaire et de rééducation de Kinshasa, CPRK).
The journalist was arrested for publishing, in the 16 August 2006 issue (number 0561) of the weekly “Tapis Rouge”, an article entitled: “Scandal at DGI”, in which the editor accused Mr. Sam Bokolombe, the head of the public tax office, of embezzling funds. These funds reportedly allowed Bokolombe to purchase four luxurious villas throughout Kinshasa. The article also stated that Bokolombe had allegedly offered brand new limousines to girlfriends and to colleagues working for the DGI.
