(JED/IFEX) – According to information obtained from the Clerk’s Office of the Military Order Court (COM), Freddy Loseke Lisumbu la Yayenga, editor of “La Libre Afrique” newspaper, was scheduled to appear in court for a second hearing on Wednesday 19 January 2000. The new hearing was to be a public one. However, the public hearing […]
(JED/IFEX) – According to information obtained from the Clerk’s Office of the Military Order Court (COM), Freddy Loseke Lisumbu la Yayenga, editor of “La Libre Afrique” newspaper, was scheduled to appear in court for a second hearing on Wednesday 19 January 2000. The new hearing was to be a public one.
However, the public hearing did not happen as planned by the COM Clerk’s Office. The case, registered under number RP 585/2000, was set back to the week of 24 January without further details being given.
“Inquiries are being led,” a military source declared to JED. The source furthermore maintained Loseke’s brief escape.
Lawyers Dieudonné Kaluba and Nkwebe have not been able to obtain authorisation to see and converse with the journalist. Loseke is still locked up in solitary confinement in the Kokolo military camp of the Seventh Military Region of the Congolese Armed Forces (Forces armées congolaises, FAC), which is located in Kinshasa/Bandalungwa.
For further information, contact D. M’Baya Tshimanga, president, or Mwamba wa ba Mulamba, secretary-general, Journaliste en Danger (JED), 73, avenue Maringa, Kinshasa/Kasa-Vubu, Democratic Republic of Congo, tel/fax: +243 12 61576, e-mail: jedkin@ic.cd, Internet: http://www.congonline.com/Jed/
