Articles by Journaliste en danger (JED)
Journalist expelled, another released, distributor kidnapped
(JED/IFEX) – On Tuesday 27 June 2000, Caroline Pare was expelled from the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the British Broadcasting Corporation’s (BBC) office in Kinshasa. Before leaving the Congo, she demanded and obtained the release of Pierre Mombele (the Reuters agency chauffeur who drove her on the day of her arrest) and an […]
Director-general of national radio and television agency and two of his colleagues arrested
(JED/IFEX) – On Tuesday 27 June 2000, at about midday (local time), José Kajangwa, director general of the national radio and television agency (Radiotélévision nationale congolaise, RTNC), a public station, was briefly detained by officers of the National Congolese Police (Police nationale congolaise, PNC). Two of Kajangwa’s colleagues, Ngandu Muyembe and Bambi Kabesa, assistant director […]
Publisher appears in court
(JED/IFEX) – On 16 June 2000, Richard Nsamba Olangi, publisher of the twice weekly “Le Messager Africain”, appeared before a special hearing of the Kinshasa/Gombe High Court, held at the Kinshasa Penitentiary and Re-education Center (Centre pénitentiaire et de rééducation de Kinshasa, CPRK, formerly known as Makala Central Prison). The journalist had to answer to […]
Journalist detained at Kinshasa Central Prison
(JED/IFEX) – On 14 June 2000, Richard Nsamba Olangi, publisher of the Kinshasa-based weekly “Le Messager Africain”, was taken to the Kinshasa Penitentiary and Re-education Center (Centre pénitentiaire et de rééducation de Kinshasa, CPRK, formerly known as Makala Central Prison), after a 12 June hearing at the Kinshasa/Gombe public prosecutor’s office. He is charged with […]
Editor-in-chief of “Le Phare” abducted and jailed in Kinshasa
(JED/IFEX) – Jean Kenge Mukengeshayi, editor-in-chief of the Kinshasa daily “Le Phare”, was abducted in the late afternoon of Thursday 8 June 2000 at his newspaper’s offices, by two men in civilian clothes. The two men did not have a written summons but claimed to be from the Special Services of the Congolese National Police […]
Prosecutor calls for ten years imprisonment for Loseke
(JED/IFEX) – Freddy Loseke Lisumbu, publisher of the thrice-weekly “La Libre Afrique”, published in Kinshasa, appeared once again on Wednesday 3 May 2000 before the Court of Military Order (Cour d’ordre militaire, COM). The prosecutor, military commander Jérôme Lobenga, revised the reasons for detention. Loseke is no longer being prosecuted for “propagation of false rumours” […]
Anonymous telephone threats against “Le Potentiel”
(JED/IFEX) – “Le Potentiel,” an independent Kinshasa daily, asserted in its Tuesday 2 May 2000 edition that its publisher, Modeste Mutinga Mutuishayi, received four telephone calls on Saturday 29 April from unknown people, including two women. The callers ordered Mutinga to change “the editorial line of his newspaper, otherwise we will deal severely with him […]
Two “Umoja” journalists detained for one week
**Updates IFEX alert of 26 April 2000** (JED/IFEX) – On Monday 24 April 2000, Bruno Kadima and José Moukanda Ntumba, managing editor and technician, respectively, for the Kinshasa weekly newspaper “Umoja”, were questioned by agents of the Congolese national police (Police nationale congolaise, PNC). Following the questioning, they were incarcerated in the cells of the […]