11 November 2005

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Detained newspaper publisher charged by Kinshasa court


Incident details

Patrice Booto

publisher(s)

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(JED/IFEX) - On 11 November 2005, Patrice Booto, publisher of the Kinshasa-based newspaper "Le Journal" and its supplement "Pool Malebo", was charged with spreading "false rumours" by the public prosecutor's office of the State Security Court (CSE) in Kinshasa/Lingwala, where his case was referred on 10 November in the late afternoon.

A magistrate questioned the journalist about articles published in the 16 to 19 September edition of "Le Journal" and the 15 to 20 September edition of "Pool Malebo". These articles mentioned a US$30 million donation from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) "to the Republic of Tanzania's education sector at a time when a labour conflict in the DRC pits the government against teachers' unions."



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
 

More on this case

Editor faces possible one-year prison sentence for "insulting the government" 15 February 2006 Journalist threatened with death forced to reveal source 10 November 2005 Journalist released; another still in jail without charge 9 November 2005 Publisher of suspended newspaper arrested in Kinshasa 3 November 2005 Three independent newspapers suspended for three months 20 September 2005

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