Articles by Journaliste en danger (JED)
Former communications minister obstructs work of commission examining state takeover of RTKM
(JED/IFEX) – In a press release issued on Sunday 10 June 2001 in Kinshasa, JED protested against former minister of communications Dominique Sakombi Inongo’s efforts, through various media, to obstruct the work of the commission of inquiry examining the legality of the Sakombi cabinet’s 22 September 2000 decision to seize two private radio and television […]
Freddy Loseke imprisoned in Kinshasa Central Prison for past week
(JED/IFEX) – Freddy Loseke Lisumbu La Yayenga, publisher of the Kinshasa-based newspaper “La Libre Afrique”, was arrested on 30 May 2001 and taken to a cell in the Kinshasa/Kalamu Public Prosecutor’s office (parquet de Grande instance) before being transfered on 31 May to the Third Pavilion of Kinshasa’s Penitentiary and Reeducation Centre (CPRK, formerly the […]
Two detained “La Référence Plus” journalists released
(JED/IFEX) – Publisher André Ipakala Abeiye Mobiko and reporter Valère Bisweko, from the Kinshasa-based daily “La Référence Plus”, who were detained on Friday 1 June 2001 at around 2 p.m. (local time) at the newspaper’s head office in Kinshasa/Kasa-Vubu by agents from the Kinshasa Provincial Inspectorate (Inspection provinciale de Kinshasa, IPK) of the Congolese National […]
Two “La Référence Plus” journalists arrested in Kinshasa
(JED/IFEX) – Publisher André Ipakala Abeiye Mobiko and reporter Valère Bisweko, from the Kinshasa-based daily “La Référence Plus”, were detained on Friday 1 June 2001 at around 2 p.m. (local time) at the newspaper’s head office in Kinshasa/Kasa-Vabu by agents from the Congolese national police’s Kinshasa Provincial Inspectorate (Inspection provinciale de Kinshasa, IPK). They were […]
Security services attempt to prevent JED’s secretary-general from leaving the country to attend IFEX meeting
(JED/IFEX) – In a 1 June 2001 letter to Leyka Moussa Nyembo, Director-General of the Migrations Department (Direction générale des migrations, DGM), JED protested the attempt by DGM agents at the Kinshasa/N’Djili international airport to prevent JED Secretary-General Mwamba wa ba Mulamba from boarding his Sabena airlines flight to Bangkok via Brussels and Zurich on […]
Matadi court sentences two journalists to forty-five days in prison
(JED/IFEX) – On 28 May 2001, the Court of Matadi, 350 km south-west of Kinshasa in Lower-Congo province, sentenced journalists Washington Lutumba and Jules-César Mayimbi to forty-five days in prison plus payment within ten days of 25,000 Congolese francs (about US$70) in damages. Given that the two journalists had already spent fifty-six days in detention, […]
Private television interview with opposition member censored in Kinshasa
(JED/IFEX) – A video tape containing a 24 April 2001 interview given by Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba, president of the opposition Union for Democracy and Social Progress (Union pour la démocratie et le progrès social, UDPS), to the private television chain RAGA TV, for its programme “À vous la parole”, has been confiscated for about […]
Former government minister Yérodia Abdoulaye brings a second journalist before the courts
(JED/IFEX) – André Kisangani, a journalist with the daily “La Référence Plus”, has been summoned to appear on 5 June 2001 before the Court of Kinshasa/Pont Kasa-Vubu by the former education minister, Yérodia Abdoulaye Ndombasi. In a summons dated 23 May, the former minister accuses Kisangani and the newspaper “La Référence Plus” of defamation and […]