DRC - Cross-border cooperation in suppressing media coverage

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders joins its Congolese partner, Journalist in Danger (JED), in condemning the arbitrary arrests of three journalists, one of them Burundian, during a raid yesterday on a radio station in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo by security officials who had no warrant and no authority to censor the media. Members of the National Intelligence Agency (ANR) stormed into Radio le Messager du Peuple in Uvira, in Sud-Kivu province, at around 2 p.m. yesterday, and arrested (...)

© Reporters sans frontières - mercredi 14 octobre 2015