Journaliste en danger (JED)

(JED/IFEX) – On Wednesday 28 February 2001, Guy Kasongo Kilembwe, editor-in-chief of the Kinshasa-based satirical weekly “Pot-Pourri”, was taken in for questioning by three officers of the Congolese National Police Special Services. Kasongo was detained on 30 June Avenue, close to Interfina, in Kinshasa/Gombe. JED representatives met with Kasongo on Saturday 3 March, between 4:00 […]

(JED/IFEX) – M’Baya Tshimanga, president of JED, had weapons pointed at him by a dozen armed soldiers who emerged from the darkness on Wednesday 13 December 2000, at about 10:00 p.m. (local time), near the velodrome in Kinshasa/Kintambo. The attackers told him to raise his arms and leave his car. Before JED’s president had a […]

(JED/IFEX) – Bonsange Ifonge Feu d’Or, a journalist from “L’Alarme”, was released on Monday 11 December 2000. However, he was asked to go to the public prosecutor’s office, which is located near the Court of Military Order (Cour d’ordre militaire, COM) in Kinshasa/Gombe, on Tuesday 12 December. Bonsange Ifonge was arrested on 12 November by […]

(JED/IFEX) – The following is a 10 December 2000 JED press release: 10 December 2000: 52nd anniversary of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights Subject: Publication of the 2000 Report on Press Freedom in the Democratic Republic of Congo On Sunday 10 December 2000, the international community commemorates the fifty-second anniversary of the Universal Declaration […]

(JED/IFEX) – Feu d’Or Bonsange Ifonge, a journalist with the thrice-weekly Kinshasa newspaper “L’Alarme”, was tranferred to the CPRK (Kinshasa Penitentiary and Reeducation Centre, formerly the Makala Central Prison) on Saturday 2 December 2000. Two JED investigators met with him on Sunday 3 December in his CPRK cell. The journalist was arrested on Saturday 11 […]

(JED/IFEX) – The directors of Kinshasa’s main independent newspapers have been ordered to stop publishing information about the army and security services. The order was issued by a National Information Agency (Agence nationale de renseignements, ANR) official who summoned them to his office by the Congo River, in Kinshasa/Gombe, on 30 November 2000. Referring to […]

(JED/IFEX) – During the week of 20 to 25 November 2000, Radiotélévision Kin Malebo (RTKM) journalists filed a complaint with the Kinshasa/Gombe Supreme Court (CSJ) against Minister of Communications Dominique Sakombi Inongo. The journalists, who were either fired or refused to work as long as their private station remains under the supervision of the Kinshasa […]

(JED/IFEX) – In a 23 November 2000 letter to the Congolese minister of human rights, Kakez Ekir Kaz-Azama, copied to all national and international human rights and free expression organisations, Polydor Muboyayi Mubanga, publisher of the daily “Le Phare”, protested the harassment against himself, his journalists and their respective families. Le “Phare”‘s publisher notably writes […]