Congolese journalist gets jail term, first under new president

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the jail sentence that a Congolese TV reporter received last week in the northwestern province of Equateur and calls for his immediate release. The disgraceful methods traditionally used to silence journalists in the DRC must not be tolerated by the new administration, RSF said.Steeve Mwanyo Iwewe, a reporter for local TV channel Radio Télé Sarah, was sentenced to 12 months in prison in Mbandaka, the province’s capital, on 1 March on a charge of insulting pr

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