Articles by Journaliste en danger (JED)
Imprisoned journalist’s health seriously deteriorates
(JED/IFEX) – The following is an abridged version of a 17 June 2004 JED letter to the director of Kinshasa’s Central Penitentiary and Reeducation Centre: Kinshasa, 17 June 2004 Attention: Director, Central Penitentiary and Reeducation Centre of Kinshasa (CPRK) KINSHASA/SELEMBAO Dear Sir, Re: Appeal for an imprisoned journalist Journaliste en danger (JED) an independent, nonprofit […]
Journalist Bamporiki Chamira released after 15 months in detention; publisher of “Le Collecteur” temporarily released
(JED/IFEX) – Bamporiki Chamira, a journalist with the daily “La Tempête des Tropiques”, was released on 15 June 2004 from Kinshasa’s Penitentiary and Reeducation Centre (Centre pénitentiaire et de rééducation de Kinshasa, CPRK, former Makala central prison), where he spent more than 15 months in detention. Immediately after being released from prison, the journalist visited […]
JED denounces latest government efforts to silence the press
(JED/IFEX) – The following is a JED press release: Journaliste en danger denounces efforts to silence the press Kinshasa, 14 June 2004 Journaliste en danger (JED) has learned that the Ministry of Press and Information issued a directive, on 12 June 2004, warning the Congolese press to “respect editorial guidelines to the letter during this […]
Journalist arrested for “spying”
(JED/IFEX) – On 7 June 2004, Gustave Kalenga Kabanda, managing editor of the Kinshasa-based weekly “La Flamme du Congo” (“Congo’s Flame”) was arrested by judicial police at his home in Kinshasa-Ngaliema. Kalenga Kabanda was taken to the Kinshasa-Gombe Court’s detention centre (commonly referred to as the “judicial locker”), where he was detained for 48 hours […]
Radio FM Liberté wins case against government
(JED/IFEX) – On 2 June 2004, the administrative chamber of N’Djamena’s Supreme Court, in the Chadian capital, ordered the government to pay six million CFA francs (approx. US$11,200) in damages to the N’Djamena-based community radio station FM Liberté, for losses incurred when the station was forced to close between 21 October and 9 December 2003.
Privately-owned radio station threatened with closure in N’Djamena
(JED/IFEX) – On 26 May 2004, High Council for Communications (Haut conseil de la communication, HCC) President Moussa Dago threatened to order the closure of FM Liberté, a community radio station based in the capital, N’Djamena. In a letter to FM Liberté’s director, the HCC president criticised the station for airing a commercial, between 19 […]
Supporters of minister allegedly implicated in corruption scandal threaten Kinshasa daily
(JED/IFEX) – In a leaflet handed out in the capital, Kinshasa, on 27 May 2004, the local daily “Le Potentiel” was threatened for “publishing [an article] vilifying [Mines Minister] Diomi Ndongala”. The leaflet was signed by one Agathe Mbelenge, a spokesperson for a women’s group called the “Mothers of the Former Province of Léopoldville” (“Mamans […]
Bukavu journalists and radio stations under attack as insurgents take the city
(JED/IFEX) – On 3 June 2004, Joseph Nkinzo, director of the Bukavu-based Radio Sauti Ya Rehema (The Voice of Mercy), sought shelter at the United Nations Mission in Congo (Mission des Nations unies, MONUC) headquarters in the city, after narrowly escaping an attempt on his life that left his younger brother dead. Bukavu has been […]