Articles by Journaliste en danger (JED)
Journalist Freddy Loseke expresses fear for his life from his military base prison cell
**Updates IFEX alerts of 20, 19, 18, 11 and 7 January 2000** (JED/IFEX) – In a press release issued on the afternoon of Wednesday 16 February 2000, JED asks the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as supreme magistrate, to guarantee journalist Freddy Loseke’s right to life and put an end to the […]
Journalist sought by armed men in Kinshasa
(JED/IFEX) – In the early evening of Wednesday 9 February 2000, three armed men in military dress seized Modeste Mutinga Mutuishayi’s car at a crossroads in Kinshasa/Limete. Mutinga is publisher of the Kinshasa daily “Le Potentiel”. The attackers said that they were searching for Mutinga (who was not in his car at the time). After […]
Journalist appeals sentence
**Updates IFEX alerts of 7 February, 24 and 7 January 2000, 13 December and 8 November 1999** (JED/IFEX) – On 8 February 2000, Polycarpe Honsek Hokwoy, publisher of the Kinshasa newspaper “La Solidarité”, lodged an appeal against the Kinshasa/Gombe Court’s decision against him. The journalist believes that “a poor decision was rendered in all the […]
Journalist released after receiving three month prison sentence
**Updates IFEX alerts of 24 and 7 January 2000, 13 December and 8 November 1999** (JED/IFEX) – The Kinshasa/Gombe Court sentenced Polycarpe Honsek Hokwoy, publisher of the Kinshasa newspaper “La Solidarité”, to three months’ imprisonment for making “damaging accusations”. Because the journalist had already served more than three months in prison since his arrest on […]
Sports journalist prosecuted in Kinshasa
(JED/IFEX) – Gérard-Désiré Angengwa Agbeme, managing editor of the Kinshasa newspaper “La Voix de la Vérité”, appeared without a lawyer before the Kinshasa/Pont Kasa-Vubu Court on Tuesday 1 February 2000. A lawsuit for “harmful accusations” has been filed against the journalist by Olivier Bierlaire, Tambwe Lombe and Tshamala Kazadi Tshamy, technical personnel of the Kinshasa […]
Journalist summoned by special police services branch
(JED/IFEX) – Through a 25 January 2000 summons signed by Commander Raus Chalwe Ngwashi, head of the Special Services branch of the Congolese National Police (Police nationale congolaise, PNC), Norbert Tambwe, a journalist with the Kinshasa daily “La Tempête des tropiques”, was “invited” to appear at the branch’s headquarters in Kinshasa/Gombe. The journalist is to […]
JED staff members threatened
(JED/IFEX) – In the early morning of Tuesday 25 January 2000, Jérôme Debo, member of JED’s investigations bureau escaped abduction at a bus stop in Kinshasa/Bandalungwa, while he was on his way to work. Three unidentified men – apparently members of the secret service – attempted to force him into an unmarked car, in order […]
Court rules to keep journalist Polycarpe Honsek Hokwoy in detention
On 20 January 2000, the Kinshasa/Gombe Court produced edict number 017/2000 relating to the case of Polycarpe Honsek Hokwoy, editor of the newspaper “La Solidarité”. The court, benched in the council chamber of Kinshasa’s Penitentiary and Reeducation Centre (Centre pénitentiaire et de rééducation de Kinshasa, CPRK), formerly the Makala Central Prison (Prison centrale de Makala), […]