Articles by Journaliste en danger (JED)
Journalist Nyembo Kimuni forbidden from leaving Lubumbashi
(JED/IFEX) – In a Tuesday 18 April 2000 ruling, the Lubumbashi/Kamalondo Court of first instance forbade Donatien Nyembo Kimuni, publisher of the newspaper “Le Libérateur Ujamaa” and provincial representative of the newspaper “La Tribune” in Katanga, from leaving the city of Lubumbashi until further notice. Nyembo Kimuni, who was granted a temporary release from prison […]
JED protests arrest of journalist and technician
(JED/IFEX) – In a letter to Interior Minister Gaétan Kakudji and Human Rights Minister Léonard She Okitundu (and copied to Attorney General Luhonge Kabinda Ngoy), JED protested the arrest and jailing of Bruno Kadima and José Mounkanda Ntumba, journalist and technician, respectively, with the Kinshasa weekly “UMOJA”. The two were jailed on Monday 24 April […]
Journalist Donatien Nyembo Kimuni released
**Updates IFEX alerts of 23 and 20 March 2000** (JED/IFEX) – On Wednesday 19 April 2000, the Lubumbashi High Court (in the province of Katanga, some 2000 km south-east of Kinshasa), granted a temporary release to Donatien Nyembo Kimuni, publisher of the Lubumbashi newspaper “Le Libérateur Ujamaa” and provincial representative of the weekly “La Tribune” […]
Two journalists forbidden from leaving Kinshasa
(JED/IFEX) – On Friday 14 April 2000, the State Security Council (Conseil de sécurité d’État, CSE) informed Jean-René Mputu Biduaya and Jean-René Lumbana Kapasa, information director at the private television station RAGA and programming director at Radiotélévision Kin Malebo (RTKM), respectively, that they were forbidden from leaving Kinshasa until further notice. The authorities from the […]
Publisher summoned by public prosecutor office’s crime squad in Kinshasa
(JED/IFEX) – On Monday 3 April 2000, Joseph-Boucard Kasonga Tshilunde Baya Yowumwe, publisher of the Kinshasa newspaper “L’Eveil”, was summoned by the crime squad of the public prosecutor office’s criminal investigation department in Kinshasa. He was to be heard on a matter which would be explained to him there. Kasonga Tshilunde went to the office […]
Journalist Freddy Loseke appears again before the Court of Military Order
**Updates IFEX alerts of 14 and 7 March, 24 and 16 February, 20, 19, 18, 11 and 7 January 2000** (JED/IFEX) – On Monday 3 April 2000, the Court of Military Order (Cour d’ordre militaire, COM), continued its deliberations at a public hearing in Kinshasa in the prosecution of Freddy Loseke Lisumbu la Yayenga, publisher […]
RTKM staff protest the requisitioning of their station
**Updates IFEX alert of 16 March 2000** (JED/IFEX) – In a 16 March 2000 letter adressed to “human rights organisations”, the staff of Radio Télévision Kin-Malebo (RTKM) protested the “irregular procedure” which drove Minister of Justice Mwenze Kongolo to requisition the private station on the State’s behalf. In their letter, the staff evoke “the unjustified […]
Private radio and television station requisitioned by the State
(JED/IFEX) – On Saturday 11 March 2000, the director-general of the Bureau of Illegally Acquired Goods (Office des biens mal acquis, OBMA) presented an order – issued by Justice Minister Mwenze Kongolo and dated 7 March – to journalists and other staff of the private station Radiotélévision Kin Malebo (RTKM). The order requisitioned RTKM on […]