No journalist should be jailed for defamation, DRC authorities told

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) joins Journalist in Danger (JED), its partner organization in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in calling for the immediate release of a Kinshasa newspaper editor held for the past four days for allegedly defaming a bank. It’s because of arbitrary detention of this kind that the DRC urgently needs to overhaul its press legislation. After being arrested at his home on 21 October, Nouvelles du Soir editor Achiko Ngaya was interrogated about an article in the newspaper about the pan-African commercial b

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