Articles by Journaliste en danger (JED)
Harassment of Canal Kin TV continues
(JED/IFEX) – Further to an order issued by the chief inspector and head of the Office of General Information and Special Services (Direction des renseignements généraux et services spéciaux, DRGS), Raüs Chalwe Ngwashi, four DRGS agents have been delegated to audit the private television station Canal Kin TV. The audit is scheduled to take place […]
Appeals Court judge reduces two journalists’ prison sentences
(JED/IFEX) – The Kinshasa/N’Djili High Court, in its capacity as an appeals court, gave its ruling on 21 November 2002 in the case brought by Mwenze Kongola, the now-suspended minister of security and public order, against journalists Delly Bonsange and Raymond Kabala, publisher and publication director, respectively, of the newspaper “L’Alerte”. The court found the […]
Voice of America radio correspondent threatened in Lubumbashi
(JED/IFEX) – The local military authorities in Lubumbashi, capital of Katanga province, in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) south-eastern region, have been looking for Lucien Kahozi, Voice of America (VOA) radio correspondent in Lubumbashi, since 20 November 2002. The journalist is currently in hiding. Kahozi had put the VOA bureau in Washington DC in […]
Private television station closed for 20 hours in Kinshasa
(JED/IFEX) – On 20 November 2002, at 10:00 p.m. (local time), officers from the Congolese National Police’s Special Services branch stopped broadcasts of the private television station Canal Kin TV and sealed the station’s studio. Canal Kin TV was able to resume its broadcasts on 21 November at approximately 6:30 p.m., but police officers remain […]
Power supply cut off from “Le Potentiel” newspaper’s printing facilities for past four months
(JED/IFEX) – In a 13 November 2002 press release, the Kinshasa-based independent daily “Le Potentiel” complained that for the past four months, electrical power has been unavailable in the neighbourhood where its printing facilities are located. The newspaper noted that the problem is limited to that specific area, and that the power supply has been […]
Lawyer of two imprisoned journalists abducted and tortured
(JED/IFEX) – In an 18 October 2002 letter to Human Rights Minister Ntumba Luaba, JED expressed its serious concern following the abduction and torture of Sébastien Kayembe Nkokesha, chairman of the board of directors of the Congolese Human Rights Observatory (Observatoire Congolais des droits de l’homme, OCDH) and a Kinshasa-based lawyer. “For once, JED would […]
Imprisoned journalist transferred to Kinshasa hospital
(JED/IFEX) – Delly Bonsange, publisher of the newspaper “Alerte Plus”, who is serving a six-month sentence at Kinshasa’s Penitentiary and Reeducation Centre (Centre pénitentiaire et de ré-éducation de Kinshasa (CPRK, former central prison), was urgently transferred to Kinshasa’s General Hospital on 26 September 2002. The CPRK prison doctor ordered his transfer after examining Bonsange and […]
Radio Okapi journalist released in Gbadolite
(JED/IFEX) – On 21 September 2002, in the early afternoon, Franklin Moliba-Sese, Radio Okapi correspondent in Gbadolite (north-western Democratic Republic of Congo), was released following a decision by the Gbadolite public prosecutor. He had been jailed by officials of the Mouvement de Libération du Congo (MLC), an armed rebel group. Radio Okapi is operated by […]