Journaliste en danger (JED)

(JED/IFEX) – On 21 October 2005, Marlene Rabot, Kinshasa correspondent for the British news agency Reuters, was detained for more than six hours by Airway Authority (Régie des Voies Aériennes) police at Kinshasa/N’Djili International Airport on the order of an unidentified commander from the Airport Security Agency (Agence pour la Sécurité des Aéroports). Rabot was […]

(JED/IFEX) – Jean-Jacques Luboya N’Samba Shake, publisher of the Lubumbashi-based weekly “La Vérité” (“The Truth”), who was arrested on 13 October 2005, was released on bail at around noon on 15 October, after a conditional release order was handed down by a Lubumbashi high court. Luboya was ordered to post bail in the amount of […]

(JED/IFEX) – Jean-Jacques Luboya N’Samba Shake, publisher of the Lubumbashi-based weekly “La Vérité” (“The Truth”), was arrested and taken into custody at Lubumbashi High Court detention centre on 13 October 2005. The decision to arrest Luboya was taken by State Prosecutor Médard Luyamba after a defamation complaint was brought by a Mr. Vikas, an Indian […]

(JED/IFEX) – On 17 September 2005, Luckson Kabala and Mayumba Mayiribu, journalists at the Congolese National Radio-Television (Radiotélévision nationale congolaise, RTNC) station in Kisangani, Eastern Province (in the country’s northeast), were suspended indefinitely by William Betua, RTNC/Kisangani’s provincial director, on orders of the provincial governor, Hubert Molisho. The two journalists were accused of “inciting revolting”. […]

(JED/IFEX) – The following is an abridged JED press release: Three independent newspapers suspended for three months: JED denounces media regulatory body’s “totalitarian” abuse of power and lack of independence Kinshasa, 20 September 2005 In a 20 September 2005 letter to Haute Autorité des Médias (HAM, media regulatory body) President Modeste Mutinga, Journaliste en Danger […]

(JED/IFEX) – The following is a 6 September 2005 JED press release: Kinshasa, 6 September 2005 Radio station suspended indefinitely in Congo-Brazzaville On 2 September 2005, Radio Moka, a community radio station based in Impfondo, a town in the department of Likouala (northern Republic of Congo), was suspended for an indefinite period by Gilbert Djombo […]

(JED/IFEX) – On 23 August 2005, Moussa Mahamat Dago, president of the High Council of Communication (Haut conseil de la communication, HCC), the body that regulates Chad’s media, authorised the resumption of broadcasts by Radio Brakoss, a community station based in Moïssala, a village about 700 km from the capital, N’Djamena. The decision to reopen […]

(JED/IFEX) – Jean Pierre Phambu Lutete, publisher of the Kinshasa-based newspaper “La Tolérance”, was released in the early evening of 20 August 2005. Tshimanga Mukeba, the state prosecutor, has apparently withdrawn his complaint, Phambu Lutete told JED by telephone on 21 August.