DRC - Katanga journalist held for past nine days, TV station closed

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is alarmed by local TV station director Simplexe Musangu's detention for the past nine days in the southeastern province of Katanga on a charge of inciting civil disobedience because his station broadcast a Katanga secessionist group's message after being taken over at gunpoint. The head of Radio Télévision ya Lisano, a station based in Kolwezi (300 km west of the provincial capital, Lubumbashi), Musangu was arrested by the local branch of the National Intelligence (...)

© Reporters sans frontières - lundi 22 juillet 2013