DRC - Information minister assumes role of film censor

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and Journalist in Danger (JED) condemn the government's decision to “categorically ban” a documentary about Denis Mukwege, a Congolese surgeon specializing in treating women who have been raped in the course of years of fighting in the eastern province of Sud-Kivu. Information minister Lambert Mendé insists that the Congolese armed forces are “defamed” by "The Man Who Mends Women,” which was made by Thierry Michel, a Belgian filmmaker, and Colette Braeckman, a (...)

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