DRC - Two dangerous weeks for media in eastern provinces

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is disturbed by a spate of freedom of information violations in the eastern provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu and Orientale in the past two weeks, including the forced closure of a radio station, arrests of 11 journalists (three of whom are still detained) and threats against two journalists. Officials hostile to media in North Kivu Radio Liberté, a station located in Butembo, in North Kivu province, was shut down on 13 May on the mayor's orders by members of the (...)

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