DRC - Journalist held arbitrarily, Nord-Kivu authorities impose reporting blackout

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is extremely concerned about radio journalist Mapendo King's detention for the past six days in Rutshuru Territory, a troubled region in the eastern province of Nord-Kivu, and calls for his immediate release. King has been held since 5 March, when members of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) based in the locality of Tongo stormed into his radio station, La Voix de Rutshuru, with the aim of arresting him. A few days later, he (...)

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