RSF and JED decry Congolese government’s “planned system of repression”

ReportsJournalist in Danger (JED), the partner organization of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has just released an alarming report about press freedom in the DRC during the past 12 months. Entitled “Journalists and media under pressure: dangerous elections,” it has been published six weeks before a fraught presidential election that was delayed for two years.JED registered a total of 121 press freedom violations during the 12 months ending 2 November (coincidentally the same number as during the 12 months of

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