Articles by Journaliste en danger (JED)
A weekly editor released after 72 hours of incarceration
(JED/IFEX) – The Kinshasa-based weekly “Lubilanji Expansion” managing director, Mr Arthur Tshimanga Kaputu was released on 21 April 2006 after 72 hours of incarceration. Kaputu was released after the arrest on 20 April in late afternoon of Mr Kazadi Kasumpata, the real author of the article in question. According to the Magistrate overseeing the case, […]
Presidential candidate calls “Africa News” journalist before the courts on charges of libel and defamation
(JED/IFEX) – Mrs. Wivine N’Landu Kavidi, candidate for the forthcoming presidential election in the DR Congo, and her political party the UDR (Union pour la Défense de la République) have called upon the Kinshasa-based weekly “Africa News” journalist, Kisungu Kas and the publication’s editor, Michel Mukebayi Nkoso, to appear before the Kinshasa/Gombe Peace Court, on […]
Armed men break into cameraman’s house, steal materials
(JED/IFEX) – JED is expressing deep concerns and consternation following the attack on a Lubumbashi-based private television cameraman by armed men. Lubumbashi, the main city of the Katanga Province, is located in the South-East of the DR Congo .The press freedom organization is once more urging the government to guarantee media professionals’ safety, at a […]
“La Tolérance” managing editor freed on bail after 33 days in detention
(JED/IFEX) – On Thursday 6 April 2006, in the late afternoon, managing editor Jean-Pierre Pambu Lutete, of the Kinshasa-based “La Tolérance”, was released. This was possible after JED (Journaliste en Danger) posted US$40 in bail. On 3 March, Lutete was arrested; he was transferred on the following day to the Kinshasa central prison, the “Centre […]
JED urges the government to explain the attack on “Tropicana TV” by the local police
(JED/IFEX) – Journaliste en danger (JED), is expressing deep concern over the attack on the Kinshasa-based private television station “Tropicana TV” by local policemen. According to information gathered by JED, late in the morning on 31 March 2006, about ten gunmen belonging to special police services forcibly entered the “Tropicana TV” offices. Led by captain […]
A second journalist sentenced in case of “homosexual lists”
(JED/IFEX) – On 24 March 2006, a Yaoundé first instance court handed down a double sentence to Ayisi Biloa, the publication director for the Yaoundé-based “Nouvelle Afrique”, for six months’ imprisonment. Biloa was accused of libelling Jean-Pierre Mayo and Grégoire Owona, a Cameroonian medical doctor and minister in charge of relationships with assemblies, respectively. The […]
ICC asked to investigate militia leader’s role in AFP assistant’s disappearance in 2003
(RSF/JED/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders and its partner organisation Journaliste en Danger (JED) have written to the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor asking him to carry out more thorough enquiries into the June 2003 disappearance of Agence France-Presse assistant Acquitté Kisembo. Militia chief Thomas Lubanga, who was arrested on war crimes charges and transferred to […]
Newspaper publisher detained in Kinshasa
(JED/IFEX) – On 6 March 2006, Jean-Pierre Pambu Lutete, publisher of the Kinshasa-based newspaper “La Tolérance”, was transferred to Kinshasa’s Penitentiary and Reeducation Centre (Centre pénitentiaire et de rééducation de Kinshasa, CPRK, formerly Makala Central Prison). The journalist was placed under arrest just before noon on 3 March 2006 by the Kinshasa/Kalamu Public Prosecutor’s office […]