Articles by Journaliste en danger (JED)
Voice of America journalist arrested
(JED/IFEX) – On 9 February 2002, National Intelligence Agency (Agence nationale des renseignements, ANR/Katanga) agents arrested Deogratias Simba Mwanangongo in Lubumbashi. The journalist is a Congolese national who lives in Washington (United States) and works for the Voice of America (VOA), according to the organisation Committee to Protect Journalists. A day after his arrest, he […]
Three journalists arrested on 31 December 2001 in Kinshasa released
(JED/IFEX) – The three journalists who were arrested on 31 December 2001 in Kinshasa have been released. Freddy Embumba, one of sixteen journalists and other employees who resigned from the daily “L’Avenir”, was released on Wednesday 2 January 2002 at 3:45 p.m. (local time). He told JED that the L’Avenir Group was unable to prove […]
Three journalists arrested and detained in Kinshasa on Monday 31 December 2001
(JED/IFEX) – Guy Kasongo Kilembwe, editor-in-chief of the Kinshasa-based satirical newspaper “Pot-Pourri”, Vicky Bolingola, “Pot-Pourri” newsroom secretary, and Freddy Embumba, one of thirteen dissident journalists from another Kinshasa-based daily, “L’Avenir”, were arrested on Monday 31 December 2001, between noon and 7:00 p.m. (local time), by individuals identified by witnesses as Congolese National Police (Police nationale […]
RFI correspondent released from prison but barred from leaving the country until further notice
(JED/IFEX) – Frédéric Kitengie, the Johannesburg-based sports correspondent for Radio France Internationale (RFI) who was arrested in Kinshasa on Wednesday 5 December 2001, was released on Thursday 13 December in the late afternoon. The journalist’s release is conditional on his not leaving the country until further notice. He must also check-in with the Kinshasa/Gombe High […]
Twenty-five journalists have been imprisoned because of their work under Joseph Kabila
(JED/IFEX) – The following is a JED press release: Kinshasa, 10 December 2001 Twenty-five journalists have been imprisoned because of their work under Joseph Kabila On Monday 10 December 2001, Journaliste en danger (JED), a Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) based non-governmental organisation that works towards the defence and promotion of press freedom, presented its […]
Journalist arrested in Kananga
(JED/IFEX) – On Thursday 8 November 2001, Gilbert Kasanda Kabala, an Agence congolaise de presse (ACP, official agency) journalist and the ACP’s permanent correspondent with Western Kasai province’s administration, was arrested in Kananga (capital of Western Kasai province, in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s central region). The journalist is being held in a cell at […]
Journalist Freddy Loseke released in Kinshasa
(JED/IFEX) – On Tuesday 6 November 2001, by instruction of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) Minister of Justice Ngele Masudi, the Kinshasa/Kalamu Magistates’ Court ordered the release of Freddy Loseke Lisumbu la Yayenga, director of “La Libre Afrique” newspaper. After his release, Loseke went back to his home, having spent five months and six […]
Tribunal sentences journalist Freddy Loseke Lisumbu to prison on defamation charges
(JED/IFEX) – On 17 September 2001, a Kinshasa/Pont Kasa-vubu tribunal, headquartered at the CPRK (Kinshasa Penitentiary and Reeducation Centre), sentenced Freddy Loseke Lisumbu la Yayenga, director of “La Libre Afrique” newspaper, to five months’ imprisonment (including three months suspended) and twelve months’ imprisonment with no parole, for defamation, in two separate cases. The first case […]