Articles by Journaliste en danger (JED)
Editor faces possible one-year prison sentence for “insulting the government”
(JED/IFEX) – On 14 February 2006, the State Security Court (CSE) prosecutor requested that Patrice Booto, editor-director of the Kinshasa-based tri-weekly paper “Le Journal” and its supplement “Pool Malebo”, be handed a one-year prison sentence with no parole. Booto was making his third appearance before the Kinshasa court.
Radio station back on the air after 13 days of suspended broadcast
(JED/IFEX) – The RTC (Radiotélévision LA COLOMBE) station in Rutshuru, located in North Kivu province, approximately 72 km from Goma, in eastern DRC, went back on the air on 10 February 2006 after a 13-day broadcasting hiatus that began on 29 January when the station’s director Delphin Yenga Yenga closed the radio for reasons of […]
Newspaper director incarcerated for 10 days in Kinshasa
(JED/IFEX) – Jean-Louis Ngalamulume, editor-in-chief of the Kinshasa-based newspaper “L’Eclaireur”, has been imprisoned at the capital city’s Penitentiary and Reeducation Centre (Centre pénitentiaire et de rééducation de Kinshasa, CPRK) since 31 January 2006. The journalist stands accused of “public injury” towards Denis Kisalambote, a land holder in Mount Amba (located on the east side of […]
Radio station suspends broadcasts due to insecurity
(JED/IFEX) – On 29 January 2006, Delphin Yenga Yenga, the director of Radiotélévision LA COLOMBE (RTC) stationed in Rutshuru, North Kivu province, decided to suspend broadcasting for security reasons. On the evening of 24 January 2006, unidentified soldiers entered the RTC offices and confiscated a Pentium 2 computer, two Nokia cell phones and four dictaphones. […]
Radio station closed in Kisangani
(JED/IFEX) – JED has expressed serious concern following the 11 January 2006 closure of Radio Mwangaza, broadcast from Kisangani in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Two officers from the Kisangani Court of Appeal Prosecutor’s Office sealed the doors of Radio Mwangaza at the instigation of the provincial director of the National Society of Publishers, […]
Journalist freed after spending more than three months in detention, another denied release
(JED/IFEX) – Ntumba Lumembu, a journalist with “La Tempête des Tropiques” (Tropical Storm”) in Kinshasa, was released on the morning of 11 January 2006, after spending three months and 18 days in prison. During questioning by the journalist’s lawyers, the State Security Court (CSE) prosecutor admitted that the journalist “could not assume penal responsibility for […]
Journalist released after 48 hours in detention in Kasumbalesa
(JED/IFEX) – Dany Zahira Sefu, a journalist from RTD (Radiotélévision Deogracias) – a local NGO-owned station broadcast from Kasumbalesa, a town on the Zambian border in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s south-east – was released on 16 December 2005 in Lubumbashi by the presidential military group GSSP (Groupe Spécial de Sécurité Présidentielle) after having spent […]
JED’s annual report indicates worrying regression for press freedom
(JED/IFEX) – The following is an abridged version of a 9 December 2005 JED press release: In a report published on 9 December 2005 in Kinshasa to commemorate the 57th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, press freedom in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was shown to be in a “catastrophic” state. […]