DRC - Radio station manager still held, although station now back on the air

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders reiterates its call for the immediate release of Simplexe Musangu, a radio station manager in Kolwezi, in the southeastern province of Katanga, who has been detained since 13 July because rebel gunmen forced him to broadcast a message calling for Katanga's independence. The authorities still have not released Musangu, although a prosecutor in the Katangan capital of Lubumbashi gave his permission for Musangu's radio station, Radio Télévision ya Lisano, to resume (...)

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