Journaliste en danger (JED)

(JED/IFEX) – On 15 August 2005, a N’Djamena court sentenced Sy Koumbo Singa Gali, publication director for the independent “L’Observateur”, to 12 months’ prison without parole and a 100,000 CFCA fine (approx. US$188;152 euros) in relation to an interview the paper had earlier published with another jailed “Observateur” journalist, Garonde Djarma. Koumbo was immediately taken […]

(JED/IFEX) – Jean Pierre Phambu Lutette, publisher of the Kinshasa-based newspaper “La Tolerance”, was arrested by judicial inspectors in the early afternoon hours of 28 July 2005. He was immediately taken to the holding cell of the Kinshasa/Gombe Courts Monitoring Board, commonly known as the “Court Locker”. The official reason for the arrest is not […]

(JED/IFEX) – On 25 July 2005, Jean-Marie Kanku, publisher of the Kinshasa-based weekly “L’Alerte”, left his cell at Kinshasa’s Penitentiary and Reeducation Centre (Centre pénitentiaire et de rééducation de Kinshasa, CPRK, formerly Makala Central Prison). The journalist was granted a provisional release the same day by Mundari Djo Bamba, a lawyer at the Kinshasa/Gombe Prosecutor’s […]

(JED/IFEX) – On 15 July 2005, Radio Publique Africaine (RPA), a privately-owned station based in the capital Bujumbura, was suspended for an “indefinite period” by the National Communication Council (Conseil National de la Communication, CNC), the body that regulates the media in Burundi. The CNC accuses RPA of having “violated the law on the respect […]

(JED/IFEX) – Jean Marie Kanku, publisher of the Kinshasa-based newspaper “L’Alerte”, has been detained in a cell at the Kinshasa/Gombe High Court Prosecutor’s Office since 12 July 2005. The journalist was taken there after spending the night of 11 July in a cell at the Kinshasa/Kalamu High Court Prosecutor’s Office, where judicial inspectors had lured […]

(JED/IFEX) – RAGA TV, a station belonging to the Kinshasa-based, privately-owned RAGA media group, began broadcasting again on 11 July 2005 following a 10 day-suspension. The order had been handed down by the national media regulator (Haute Autorité des Médias, HAM). RAGA Plus station was also authorised to resume broadcasting at the same time. Shortly […]

(JED/RSF/IFEX) – RSF and its partner organisation in Kinshasa, JED, have written to DRC President Joseph Kabila, “protesting the silencing of the privately-owned media group RAGA’s stations, including RAGA FM, RAGA TV and RAGA Plus, and the rounding up of journalists who were covering a demonstration by UDPS party activists in Kinshasa on 30 June […]

(JED/IFEX) – Leon Mwamba, Tshikapa correspondent for the Kinshasa-based daily “La Prospérité”, was released from an Agence nationale de renseignements (ANR – national intelligence services) detention cell on 28 June 2005, after being held for 24 hours. Tshikapa is the second largest city of Kasaï Occidental province. Mwamba was reached by phone on 28 June, […]