Journaliste en danger (JED)

(JED/IFEX) – On Monday 23 April 2001, officers of the Congolese National Police (Police nationale congolaise, PNC) and various information services barred journalists and media workers from covering Etienne Tshisekedi wa Mulumba’s return to the country at the Kinshasa/N’Djili international airport. Tshisekedi is national president of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (Union pour […]

(JED/IFEX) – The trial of Jean-Luc Kinyongo Saleh, publisher of the biweekly “Vision”, got underway on Friday 20 April 2001 at the Kinshasa/Gombe Tribunal. The journalist was brought to trial by the former state minister of internal affairs, Gaëtan Kakudji. Kakudji and Kinyongo Saleh were represented before the tribunal by their respective lawyers (three for […]

(JED/IFEX) – Jules-César Mayimbi, correspondent for the Kinshasa-based daily “Forum”, has been held since 5 April 2001 in the central prison of Matadi in Lower-Congo province. According to information obtained by JED, in the 26-27 March edition of “Forum” (issue 1535), the journalist published an article entitled “Imported wheat flour of questionable quality on the […]

(JED/IFEX) – Washington Lutumba, correspondent in the province of Lower-Congo for the Kinshasa-based daily “Le Potentiel”, has been detained in a cell at the central prison in the city of Matadi (350 kilometres west of Kinshasa) since 30 March 2001. The journalist was arrested the previous evening at his home in the province of Lower-Congo’s […]

(JED/IFEX) – On Monday 26 March 20001, at 1:00 a.m. (local time), a dozen armed persons in military and civilian dress, including a woman, burst into the family home of Mukebayi Nkoso, publication director of the Kinshasa-based twice-weekly “The Post”. The unidentified persons knocked on one of the windows and asked to see Nkoso. When […]

(JED/IFEX) – Guy Kasongo Kilembwe, editor-in-chief of the Kinshasa-based satirical weekly “Pot Pourri”, was freed on Thursday 22 March 2001 at 9:30 a.m. (local time). The journalist was released from solitary confinement at the National Information Agency/Interior Department (Agence nationale de renseignements/Direction intérieure, ANR/DI, secret services) in Kinshasa/Gombe, where he had been transferred the day […]

(JED/IFEX) – On Friday 23 March 2001, Trudon Kiomba Shesha, a journalist with the weekly “Congo Wetu”, published in Mbujimayi (capital of the province of eastern Kasaï, central region of the country), was attacked by a group of Congolese National Police (Police nationale congolaise, PNC) agents in the middle of the day, in a place […]

(JED/IFEX) – On Wednesday 21 March 2001, lawyer Jean Kabongo Kalunda opposed the 16 March sentencing by the Kinshasa/Gombe High Court, which condemned journalist Jean-Luc Kinyongo Saleh to “four months in prison and immediate arrest”, as well as a fine of 500,000 Congolese francs (about US$2,500) in damages and interest to Minister of the Interior […]