(JED/IFEX) – Jean-Louis Ngalamulume, editor-in-chief of the Kinshasa-based newspaper “L’Eclaireur”, has been imprisoned at the capital city’s Penitentiary and Reeducation Centre (Centre pénitentiaire et de rééducation de Kinshasa, CPRK) since 31 January 2006. The journalist stands accused of “public injury” towards Denis Kisalambote, a land holder in Mount Amba (located on the east side of […]
(JED/IFEX) – Jean-Louis Ngalamulume, editor-in-chief of the Kinshasa-based newspaper “L’Eclaireur”, has been imprisoned at the capital city’s Penitentiary and Reeducation Centre (Centre pénitentiaire et de rééducation de Kinshasa, CPRK) since 31 January 2006. The journalist stands accused of “public injury” towards Denis Kisalambote, a land holder in Mount Amba (located on the east side of the city).
The journalist was stopped on 27 January at approximately 2:00 p.m. (local time) by M. Kinuani, an officer of the judicial police force, who then drove him to the Kin-Mazière police station. In a verbal hearing, Ngalamulume was questioned regarding an article that appeared in the 11 January edition of his newspaper (issue 56), within which M. Kisalambote was described as being “incompetent” and “tribalist”. After this hearing, Ngalamulume was held in Kin-Mazière’s basement cell and then transferred 28 January to the Prosecutor General’s Office at the Court of Appeal in Kinshasa/Gombe.
At the Prosecutor General’s Office, Ngalamulume was questioned by a magistrate on the subject of the same article before being held for two nights in the Kinshasa/Gombe High Court’s prison. He was transferred on 31 January to the CPRK, where he is still detained.
