Articles by Journaliste en danger (JED)
Journalist Tchanguiz Vatankhah released after 20 days in detention
(JED/IFEX) – The president of the Chad Union of Privately-Owned Radio Stations (URPT), Tchanguiz Vatankhah, was released on 19 May 2006 at approximately 3:00 p.m. (local time), after 20 days in detention at the police headquarters (Services Généraux des Renseignements) in N’Djamena, the capital of Chad. JED joined Tchanguiz by telephone after he left the […]
RTMV resumes broadcasting from Kinshasa
(JED/IFEX) – The Kinshasa-based Radio Television Message of Life (RTMV) started broadcasting again on 17 May 2006 at 3:00 p.m. (local time) following three days of interruption after armed Congolese special services police cut its signal. Contacted by JED, director of the channel, Thoms Mwanza, declared: “We had to purchase another circuit breaker to replace […]
JED calls for the immediate re-establishment of religious television station’s signal
(JED/IFEX) – The Kinshasa-based Radio Television Message of Life (RTMV), property of the Church of the Victory Army and owned by televangelist Fernando Kuthino, has ceased broadcasting since 6:00 p.m. (local time) on 14 May 2006, after armed Congolese special services police cut its signal via the Binza Broadcast Centre. On the afternoon of 15 […]
Case of Patrice Booto, imprisoned for six months, transferred to peace tribunal in Kinshasa
(JED/IFEX) ? The case of journalist Patrice Booto, editor-in-chief of the tri-weekly “Le Journal” and its supplement, “Pool Malebo”, published in Kinshasa, has finally been transferred to the Kinshasa/Assossa Peace Tribunal, after the State Security Court (CSE) was dissolved. According to judges interviewed by JED, the Peace Tribunal will take over the proceedings and the […]
Civil society group members in Lubumbashi receive death threats
(JED/IFEX) – Made of civil society organizations and media, the DRC Natural Resources Network, set up from the Lubumbashi Workshop on “The role of media and the civil society in the natural resources exploitation in the DRC”, is expressing deep concern, after its members suffered recurrent threats in Lubumbashi, capital city of Katanga Province. These […]
Arrested journalist transferred to state penitentiary
(JED/IFEX) – Kazadi Kwambi Kasumpata, freelance correspondent for the weekly newspaper “Lubilanji Expansion”, in Kinshasa, was transferred to the state penitentiary, Centre pénitentiaire et de rééducation de Kinshasa (CPRK) on 22 April 2006 after spending 48 hours in detention in the Gombe High Court prison. Arrested in the afternoon of 20 April, Kazadi was charged […]
Journalists beaten by Republican Guard officers; JED implores government to ensure security of journalists and media outlets as election campaigning gets underway
(JED/IFEX) – Anselme Masua, 42 years, a journalist with Radio Okapi – a joint project by the United Nations Mission in Congo and the Swiss Hirondelle Foundation – was beaten on the morning of 24 April 2006 in Kisangani, the capital of Oriental province in northeastern DR Congo, by Republican Guard military officers. According to […]
Weekly editor accused of defamation and propagating false news in Brazzaville
(JED/IFEX) – Fortune Bemba, editor of the Brazzaville-based weekly “Thalassa”, was charged on 21 April 2006 with defamation, attack on the honour of the head of state and propagation of false news by the public prosecutor Dinard Moubanga Mokonji. The journalist was arrested on 20 April and imprisoned in Brazzaville before being released the following […]