{"id":2268,"date":"2023-04-27T14:23:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T14:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugandajournalistsunion.com\/news\/?p=2268"},"modified":"2023-04-28T15:05:47","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T15:05:47","slug":"drc-authorities-detain-2-journalists-threaten-another-with-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugandajournalistsunion.com\/wp\/2023\/04\/27\/drc-authorities-detain-2-journalists-threaten-another-with-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"DRC authorities detain 2 journalists,  threaten another with arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Our Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kinshasa, April 14, 2023\u2013 Congolese authorities  should immediately release  journalists Gustave Bakuka and Di\u00e8go  Kayiba, ensure the safety of journalist  Sylvain Kabongo, and drop all legal  proceedings and investigations  against them connected to their work,  the Committee to Protect Journalists  said.. Around 9 a.m. on Friday, April 14,  three Congolese National Intelligence  Agency (ANR) agents arrested  Bakuka, a reporter with the privately  owned broadcaster Radio Mushauri,  at his home in Kindu, the capital of  DRC\u2019s eastern Maniema province,  according to a tweet by Kindubased journalist Grace Mbambi and  another local journalist who spoke  to CPJ by phone and messaging app  on the condition of anonymity, citing  security concerns.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An ANR representative told that  local journalist that Bakuka was  accused of \u201cspreading false rumors\u201d  in an article he wrote and shared  in a WhatsApp group discussing  security issues in Kindu. Reached by  phone, the ANR director in Maniema  province declined to provide his  name or comment on Bakuka\u2019s arrest. Separately, on Monday, April 10, a  prosecutor in the capital, Kinshasa,  summoned and detained Kayiba, a  reporter with the privately owned  broadcaster Kin Actu TV and privately  owned news website Reportage.cd, in  connection to two tweets, according  to a report by privately owned news  website Actungolo and Kayiba\u2019s  lawyer, who spoke to CPJ by phone  and messaging app on the condition of  anonymity, citing security concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">  \u201cDRC authorities should  immediately release and drop all  investigations into the work of  journalists Gustave Bakuka and Di\u00e8go  DRC authorities detain 2 journalists,  threaten another with arrest By Our Reporter DRC Policemen arrest and dump a journalist on a pickup  Kayiba,\u201d said Angela Quintal, CPJ\u2019s  Africa program coordinator, from  New York. \u201cToo often journalists  in the DRC are faced with legal  harassment and the prospect of arrest  for simply doing their jobs.\u201d Kayiba\u2019s tweets, which CPJ  reviewed before they were removed,  were posted in March and alleged  that Jules Alingete Key, head of the  country\u2019s General Inspectorate of  Finance, had not been transparent  with his personal spending and  betrayed DRC President F\u00e9lix  Antoine Tshisekedi with his personal  presidential ambitions. In an April 4 statement shared with  local media, the General Inspectorate  of Finance said Alingete had not filed  a complaint against Kayiba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> CPJ\u2019s calls  to the prosecutor rang unanswered.  On April 13, Kayiba\u2019s lawyer filed a  request for the journalist\u2019s provisional  release, he said, adding that if rejected,  the journalist risks being transferred  from detention in the prosecutor\u2019s  office to prison. Separately, on April 9, JeanCalvin Mingashanga, the elected  representative for the central city  of Tshikapa, sent an audio message  to Kabongo, a reporter with the  privately owned Netic-news.net,  and threatened him with arrest  for publishing a \u201cbaseless article,\u201d  according to a report by his outlet  and Kabongo, who spoke to CPJ via  messaging app.  The April 7 article critiqued  Mingashanga\u2019s relationship with  the minister of finance and his  constituents. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mingashanga told CPJ by phone  that he remains outraged by  Kabongo\u2019s article, which discredited  his reputation. He said he intends to  \u201cpunish\u201d the journalist and force him  not to publish similar reports. On March 27, ANR agents in Kindu  arrested journalist John Ngongo  Lomango over his reporting on  security issues. Authorities released  Ngongo unconditionally on March 29  but kept his phone with the intention  of searching it, the journalist told CPJ.  Authorities have jailed journalist  Patrick Lola in the central prison of  Mbandaka since January 2022\u25a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Our Reporter Kinshasa, April 14, 2023\u2013 Congolese authorities should immediately release journalists Gustave Bakuka and Di\u00e8go Kayiba, ensure the safety of journalist Sylvain Kabongo, and drop all legal proceedings and investigations against them connected to their work, the Committee to Protect Journalists said.. 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