Articles by Journaliste en danger (JED)
Journalist claims to have escaped assassination attempt
(JED/IFEX) – In its 9 March 2000 edition (no. 1780), the pro-government daily “Le Palmarès” stated on its front page that on Sunday 5 March, “Michel-Ladi Luya escaped death” on Nguma avenue in Kinshasa/Ngaliema. According to the newspaper, “at 3:00 p.m., Michel-Ladi Luya was leaving his Macampagne residence to go out to a restaurant (…) […]
Journalist brought in for questioning and released in Kinshasa
**Updates IFEX alert of 24 February 2000** (JED/IFEX) – On Monday 21 January 2000 at about 6:00 a.m. (local time), Ntumba Lumembu Monji Mule, a journalist with the Kinshasa weekly “Umoja”, was detained at his Kinshasa/Ngiri-Ngiri residence by four Congolese National Police (Police nationale congolaise, PNC) agents. The agents did not have a warrant for […]
JED visits journalist Freddy Loseke in his cell
**Updates IFEX alerts of 16 February, 20, 19, 18, 11 and 7 January 2000** (JED/IFEX) – On Wednesday 23 February 2000 at midday, a member of JED’s staff met with Freddy Loseke Lisumbu la Yayenga, publisher of the Kinshasa newspaper “La Libre Afrique”, in his cell at the headquarters of the Seventh Military Region of […]
Journalist questioned for four hours in Goma court
(JED/IFEX) – On Monday 21 February 2000, Nicaise Kibel’Bel, publisher of the newspaper “Les Coulisses”, which is published in Goma (North Kivu province’s main city), was questioned in court for four hours by magistrate Wabo, further to a request by Jean-Marie Emungu, who oversees the Department of Justice of the Congolese Rally for Democracy rebel […]
Kinshasa journalist kidnapped
(JED/IFEX) – According to a press release from the newspaper “Umoja” which was received by JED on Wednesday 23 February 2000, journalist Ntumba Lumembu Monji Mule was kidnapped on the morning of Monday 21 February by armed men who claimed to be Congolese national police agents. That same day, without any warrant, the kidnappers returned […]
Journalist arrested and later released
(JED/IFEX) – On Wednesday 16 February 2000, Richard Nsamba Olangi Diata, publisher of the pro-governmental Kinshasa newspaper “Le Messager Africain”, was arrested by five members of the Congolese National Police’s (Police nationale congolaise, PNC) special services and taken to the jail commonly known as “Kin-Mazière” in Kinshasa/Gombe. During an interrogation in which he was repeatedly […]
Journalist’s trial begins
**Updates IFEX alert of 4 February 2000** (JED/IFEX) – Gérard-Désiré Angengwa Agbeme, managing editor of the Kinshasa weekly “La Voix de la Vérité”, appeared before the Kinshasa/Pont Kasa-Vubu Court on Tuesday 22 February 2000, charged with “defamation and making damaging statements, public insults and threats”. The plaintiffs, Olivier Bierlaire, Charles Tambwe Lombe and Tshamala Kazadi, […]
Journalist arrested and later released in Kinshasa
(JED/IFEX) – In a 15 February 2000 letter to the state minister responsible for interior affairs, Gaëtan Kakudji, and copied to Minister of Human Rights Léonard She Okitundu and Minister of Tourism Didier Mumengi, JED protested the arrest of Lumbana Kapasa, programming director of the private station RTKM (Radiotélévision Kin Malebo), by the Congolese National […]