15 February 2006

Alert

Editor faces possible one-year prison sentence for "insulting the government"


Incident details

Patrice Booto

editor(s)

legal action

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(JED/IFEX) - On 14 February 2006, the State Security Court (CSE) prosecutor requested that Patrice Booto, editor-director of the Kinshasa-based tri-weekly paper "Le Journal" and its supplement "Pool Malebo", be handed a one-year prison sentence with no parole. Booto was making his third appearance before the Kinshasa court.



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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