Articles by Journaliste en danger (JED)
Editor of “La Référence Plus” attacked
(JED/IFEX) – On Wednesday 21 March 2001, around 2:30 a.m (local time), Félix Kabwizi Baluku, editor of the daily “La Référence Plus”, published in Kinshasa, was attacked and threatened with murder by armed and otherwise unidentified soldiers, in Kinshasa/Kasa-Vubu. Baluku’s attackers took him to a dark area before searching him from top to bottom. At […]
“Vision” publisher sentenced to prison in absentia for libel
(JED/IFEX) – In a 16 March 2001 decision (no. RP 16879 IV), the Kinshasa/Gombe High Court sentenced Jean-Luc Kinyongo Saleh, publisher of the Kinshasa-based biweekly “Vision”, in absentia, to “four months’ imprisonment and immediate arrest”, for libel, and also ordered him to pay a fine of 500,000 Congolese francs (US$2,500 under the real exchange rate) […]
JED investigators denied access to Kinshasa prison
(JED/IFEX) – On Sunday 18 March 2001, JED investigators were barred from entering the Kinshasa Penitentiary and Reeducation Centre (Centre pénitentiaire et de rééducation de Kinshasa, CPRK, former Makala Central Prison). JED representatives were not even able to contact the CPRK’s social services branch, which is well covered by armed men. The JED representatives did […]
Editor-in-chief of satirical newspaper “Pot-Pourri” ails in ANR cell
(JED/IFEX) – On Tuesday 13 March 2001, Yvette Kasongo, wife of Guy Kasongo Kilembwe, editor-in-chief of the Kinshasa-based satirical weekly “Pot-Pourri”, told JED that her husband is ill, suffering from malaria. He is currently imprisoned at the National Information Agency’s (Agence nationale des renseignements, ANR) detention centre on Nguma Avenue in Kinshasa/Ngaliema. On Monday 12 […]
Canal Kin cameraman beaten by artist-musician’s bodyguards
(JED/IFEX) – During the night of Friday 2 March to Saturday 3 March 2001, four of artist-musician Kofi Olomidé’s bodyguards brutally assaulted Patchely Mudiayi Muamba, a cameraman and director from the private television station Canal Kin (placed under government supervision in recent months and renamed RTNC 3), at Kinshasa’s Grand Hotel, while Mudiayi was covering […]
Government officials contradict each other in statements regarding the RTKM affair
(JED/IFEX) – The following is a 7 March 2001 JED press release: RTKM case: the minister of communications and his secretary-general contradict each other 1. Journaliste en danger (JED), a non-governmental organisation for the defence and promotion of press freedom, has read in the press the detailed notice pronounced by the minister of commnunications on […]
JED welcomes decision to close illegal detention centres
(JED/IFEX) – The following is a JED press release: JED welcomes decision to close illegal detention centres Journaliste en danger (JED), a Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) based non-governmental organisation for the defence and promotion of press freedom, welcomes President Joseph Kabila’s 8 March 2001 decision to close “all detention centres that are not answerable […]
Detained editor-in-chief of satirical newspaper “Pot-Pourri” transferred to National Information Agency
(JED/IFEX) – On Tuesday 6 March 2001, in the early afternoon, Guy Kasongo Kilembwe, editor-in-chief of the Kinshasa-based satirical weekly “Pot-Pourri”, was transferred to a Kinshasa office of the National Information Agency (Agence nationale de renseignements, ANR). JED was told that Kasongo was transferred to the ANR by order of an unidentified member of the […]