Articles by Journaliste en danger (JED)
Intelligence agents seize journalist’s video tape
(JED/IFEX) – On 18 May 2004, two Congolese Intelligence Service (Direction spéciale de renseignements, DSR) agents seized a videotape from Alexis Mugisha Rubuga, a cameraman with Congolese National Radiotelevision’s (Radiotélévision nationale congolaise, RTNC) Goma station. The tape contained images from the closing ceremonies of a North Kivu province civil society empowerment workshop, held from 16 […]
Journalist manhandled while covering protest
(JED/IFEX) – On 18 May 2004, Jean Célestin Edjangué, a journalist with the newspaper “Le Messager” (“The Messenger”), published in Douala, was manhandled by police while covering a demonstration protesting the issuing of entry visas outside the French Consulate. In its 19 May edition, the paper reported that a police officer and six of his […]
Director of community radio station in Maniema province receives death threats
(JED/IFEX) – Modeste Shabani, director of Sauti ya mkaaji (Voice of the Farmer) community radio station, which broadcasts from the city of Kasongo, in Maniema province, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, was arrested and detained on 10, 11, 13 and 14 May 2004 by officers from the Congolese National Police’s (Police nationale congolaise) local branch […]
Two journalists arrested
(JED/IFEX) – On 13 May 2004 at 9:00 a.m. (local time), Ibrahim Kayembe and Ali Tshitoko, programming director and host with the broadcaster “Sumbula Number One”, respectively, were arrested by four Congolese Armed Forces (Forces armées congolaises, FAC) soldiers. The two journalists are being held in a detention centre at the First Company Battalion’s barracks […]
Journalist detained in Tshikapa
(JED/IFEX) – On 10 May 2004, Laurent Lukengu, a journalist with the Tshikapa-based privately-owned radio station Kasaï Horizon Radio Télévision (KHRT), was detained from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (local time). The journalist was arrested by Tshiendesha Muinyapale, a police officer who oversees Tshikapa city hall’s association with outside partners. Tshikapa is the second largest […]
Journalist dismissed for “withholding information”
(JED/IFEX) – On 23 April 2004, Vicky Kazumba Badia, a journalist and director of news programming at the private television station Canal Kin TV, was dismissed for “withholding information”, following an order given to Canal Kin TV Director-General Placide Ibouanga-Ndinga by the station’s chief executive officer Jean-Pierre Bemba, who is also the Congolese vice-president. According […]
Two more journalists ordered to appear in court on defamation charges
(JED/IFEX) – Richard Max Bosoh Mpandjo and Luther Ouandie, publication director and journalist, respectively, of the newspaper “L’Indépendent” (“The Independent”), have been ordered to appear in court on 6 May 2004, to respond to charges of “defamation and spreading false information”, brought by Ndo Ndo Jean Rollin Bertrand, director of pharmaceuticals for the Ministry of […]
Journalists sued for defamation in Yaounde
Mesmin Kangeulieu and Bonny Philippe, programme director and sportscaster, respectively, of Radiotélévision Siantou (RTS), a private station broadcasting from the capital, Yaounde, were ordered to appear in court on 10 June 2004 to respond to defamation charges brought by former Lions Indomptables junior soccer team trainer Jean-Paul Akono. Akono filed his lawsuit on 22 April. […]