Articles by Journaliste en danger (JED)
Journalists imprisoned for “violating judicial secrecy”
(JED/IFEX) – On 22 November 2006, Serges Nibizi, an executive producer with the independent Bujumbura-based radio station Radio publique africaine (RPA), and Domitile Kiramvu, a journalist with the station, were arrested on orders of the Bujumbura Prosecutor’s Office. The two were later transferred to the Mpimba central prison, where they are currently being held. According […]
Cameramen attacked by interior minister’s guards
(JED/IFEX) – On 12 November 2006, Basile Kokwalet and John Kintendu, Kinshasa correspondents and cameramen for Radio France’s overseas division, RFO, were attacked by guards of the minister of the interior and security, General Denis Kalume Numbi, as they attempted to interview a local pastor. The reporters told JED that they had gone to film […]
CAPSULE REPORT: JED calls for urgent reforms to state-owned radio and television in wake of presidential elections
(JED/IFEX) – The following is an 11 November 2006 JED press release: Excessive politicization of media during election period JED calls for a radical reform of state-owned radio and television stations so that they might effectively serve the public interest In an 11 November 2006 report on media coverage during the election period, Journalist in […]
Journalist released after spending 20 days in jail
(JED/IFEX) – Norbert Ngoua Mezui, the founder and of the Libreville-based, privately-owned bi-monthly “Nku’u Le Messager”, was released provisionally on 6 November 2006, following a Libreville Correctional Appeal Court ruling, which came as the journalist was serving the second last day of his prison sentence. The court scheduled a public hearing for 11 December, to […]
Radio station ransacked on election day, another threatened
(JED/IFEX) – On 29 October 2006, the Bumba-based and privately-owned Radio Boboto, which is close to the People’s Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD), was ransacked by unidentified persons. Bumba is a city located in the north of the Equator province. According to information obtained by JED, during the polling operations, supporters of Jean-Pierre Bemba’s […]
Journalist released after five months of incarceration
(JED/IFEX) – Journalist in Danger (JED) has welcomed the 30 October 2006 release of Aloys Kabura, a Kayanza-based correspondent for the Burundian Press Agency (Agence burundaise de presse, ABP). Kayanza is a province located in northern Burundi. The journalist spent five months in jail in the central prison of Ngozi. On 18 September 2006, the […]
JED condemns detention and treatment of two journalists by police forces
(JED/IFEX) – Journalist in Distress (JED) has condemned the questioning and treatment of two international journalists, on 26 October 2006, at a Kinshasa penitentiary (Centre Pénitentiaire et de Rééducation de Kinshasa, CPRK) by elements of the national Congolese police. With just a few days to go before the second run-off of the presidential election, JED […]
Newspaper editor arrested, publisher injured when police disperse protest against state broadcast monopoly
(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders condemned the violent dispersal of an opposition demonstration in the Seychelles capital of Victoria on 3 October 2006, to demand for an end to the state’s monopoly of radio and TV broadcasting. Roger Mancienne, the editor of the opposition weekly “Regar”, was arrested while Jean-François Ferrari, the newspaper’s publisher, was […]