10 June 2009

Alert

Journalist summoned for questioning in Kongolo


Incident details

Detention

Saidi Kaka Elenga, Journalist

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(JED/IFEX) - On 5 June 2009, Saidi Kaka Elenga, a journalist at the private radio station Community Radio of Kongolo (RCK) was questioned at the Kongolo prosecutor's office, approximately 800 km north of Lubumbashi, the capital of Katanga province. Elenga was questioned from 10:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. (local time) following a summons from the deputy state prosecutor.

The summons stemmed from an interview Elenga conducted with the Tanganyika District police commissioner two months ago regarding judicial corruption in the region. In the interview, the police commissioner told Elenga that purging the corrupt judicial sector was one of his priorities.

When contacted by JED, Elenga said that he did not understand why he was being questioned two months after the airing of the interview.

Elenga was released after five hours in detention on condition that he return to the prosecutor's office the following day with RCK's director of programming.

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
 

Democratic Republic of Congo

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