Articles by Journaliste en danger (JED)
Journalist sentenced in absentia to six months’ prison and heavy fine for defaming oil company
(JED/IFEX) – Pold Kalombo, a reporter with the Kinshasa-based weekly “Le Soft International”, was sentenced in absentia by a Kinshasa/Ngaliema court on 18 May 2007 to six months’ prison without bail and a fine of 20,000 Congolese francs (approx. US$40). Kalombo and his paper were also ordered to pay damages in the amount of US$150,000. […]
Journalist assaulted during presidential procession
(JED/IFEX) – JED has expressed outrage over the 30 June 2007 savage beating of journalist Ernest Mukuli, a reporter with the Catholic broadcaster Radio Télévision Amani (RTA) in Kisangani, the main city in Oriental province, northeastern DRC. The incident occurred during festivities marking the 47th anniversary of Congolese independence. According to information received by JED, […]
Local ANR officials close Mayi-Munene radio station, confiscate equipment
(JED/IFEX) – JED condemns the closing of a community radio station emitting in Mayi-Munene, near Tshikapa, in central RD Congo, and the confiscation of its equipment, by local officials of the National Intelligence Agency (ANR) on 9 June 2007. JED has accused Ibrahim Tutulu and Gustave Amuri, the ANR officials who blame the station for […]
Journalist killed in Bukavu
(JED/IFEX) – The following is an abridged version of a Journaliste en danger press release: Assassination of a journalist in Bukavu: JED demands the constitution of a Joint Committee of investigation to shed the light on the case (Kinshasa, 14 June 2007) – JED is shocked by the assassination on 13 June 2007 of Serge […]
Eleven months after his death, journalist’s killers face trial
(JED/IFEX) – On 1 June 2007, the trial of the presumed assassins of Bapuwa Mwamba got underway at the Kinshasa/Matete Military Tribunal. Mwamba, an independent journalist, was killed in his Kinshasa home during the night of 8 July 2006. Four people are facing charges of “murder, illegal possession of firearms, criminal conspiracy and armed robbery”. […]
Police violently break up meeting of journalists in Mbuji-Mayi
(JED/IFEX) – A gathering of some 100 journalists on 31 May 2007 in Mbuji-Mayi, capital of East Kasai province, was violently broken up by police led by Commander Jean-Claude Kabeya, also known as “Shegué”. Journalists were beaten and one of them, Luboya Nokia of Radio Mont Carmel, was seriously injured and taken to Bonzola Hospital […]
Private broadcaster suspended for seven days
(JED/IFEX) – JED expresses its profound indignation over the 20 May 2007 decision by the local section of the media regulatory agency (Haute Autorité des Médias, HAM) in Mbuji-Mayi to suspend for seven days all broadcasts by the privately-owned network, Radiotélévision Débout Kasaï (RTDK). JED believes this measure is not only disproportionate, but also clearly […]
Newspaper publisher released after five days in detention
(JED/IFEX) – Phambu Lutete, publisher of the Kinshasa-based bi-weekly newspaper “La Tolérance”, was granted a provisional release on 11 May 2007 after five days in detention. The journalist told JED that he paid “bail” of US$50. Phambu was arrested on 6 May by agents of Kinshasa’s Provincial Police Inspection (IPK) before being transferred on 8 […]