15 July 2003

Alert

Publication director of "Le Democrate" newspaper arrested in Bangui


Incident details

Ferdinand Samba

journalist(s)

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(JED/IFEX) - On 11 July 2003, police officers arrested Ferdinand Samba, publication director of the daily "Le Démocrate", based in Bangui, the capital, at the headquarters of the Central African Republic Private and Independent Press Publishers' Association (Groupement des éditeurs de la presse privée et indépendante de Centrafrique, GEPPIC). Samba is being held at the police station in Bangui's port.

The journalist had published an article in his newspaper entitled, "Kaga Bandoro, the Popular Liberation Front attacks". The article reported on violent acts committed by rampaging soldiers in the area near Kaga Bandoro, a city located 300 kilometres north of Bangui.



Source:

Journaliste en danger
B.P. 633 - Kinshasa 1
374, av. Col. Mondjiba
Complexe Utexafrica, Galerie St Pierre, 1er niveau, Local 18 Kinshasa/Ngaliema
République Démocratique du Congo
direction (@) jed-afcentre.org
Phone: +243 81 99 29 323
Fax: +44 20 7900 3413
 

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Updates to this story

Journalist released, another faces legal harassment 15 July 2003

Central African Republic

Editor sentenced to 10 months in jail on libel charge 27 January 2012 Editor jailed in politicised case 26 January 2012 Judge fines and releases two journalists 14 July 2011 Prosecutor seeks three-year jail terms for detained editors 8 July 2011 Journalist detained despite decriminalisation of press law offences 10 June 2011 See all alerts: Central African Republic


 
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