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Viewing cable 08KINSHASA693, PRESS FREEDOM QUARTERLY: APRIL-JUNE 2008

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
08KINSHASA693 2008-08-25 13:58 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Kinshasa
VZCZCXRO7956
PP RUEHBZ RUEHDU RUEHGI RUEHJO RUEHMR RUEHRN
DE RUEHKI #0693/01 2381358
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 251358Z AUG 08
FM AMEMBASSY KINSHASA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 8331
INFO RUEHXR/RWANDA COLLECTIVE
RUCNSAD/SOUTHERN AF DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY COLLECTIVE
RUEAIIA/CIA WASHDC
RHEFDIA/DIA WASHDC
RHMFISS/HQ USEUCOM VAIHINGEN GE
RUZEJAA/JAC MOLESWORTH RAF MOLESWORTH UK
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 KINSHASA 000693 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PHUM PGOV KDEM CG
SUBJECT: PRESS FREEDOM QUARTERLY: APRIL-JUNE 2008 
 
REF:  KINSHASA 361 
 
1.  (SBU) Summary:  Congolese security personnel, often under orders 
from government officials, as well as illegal armed groups continue 
to harass, intimidate, and detain journalists.  Federal immigration 
service agents (DGM - "Direction General de Migration" in French) 
detained an independent Belgian journalist in Bas-Congo for 
investigating the February and March GDRC-BDK (Bundu dia Kongo, a 
politico-religious movement based in Bas-Congo) clashes.  National 
Police arrested a journalist in Lubumbashi, apparently in response 
to a request from an Angolan diplomat.  In Butembo, North Kivu, a 
local journalist received a death threat from a militia commander 
for interviewing former child soldiers.  The governors of Orientale 
and Katanga provinces pressured media stations in response to 
reporting that they did not approve.  Updating previous cases:  ANR 
(Congolese national intelligence service - "Agence nationale de 
renseignements" in French) agents released Kinshasa daily 
"L'Interprete" editor Ponte Nsimba from secret detention and 
transferred him to Makala prison in Kinshasa; Radio Television 
reporter Justin Kabasele was released pending appeal of his one year 
prison sentence; and the Bukavu Military Tribunal acquitted two 
friends of murdered journalist Serge Maheshe and confirmed death 
sentences for three others.  Respect for the freedom and 
independence of the press has yet to firmly take hold in the DRC. 
End summary. 
 
2.  (U) Congolese security personnel continue to harass, intimidate, 
and detain journalists, often under orders from government 
officials.  This quarterly update highlights five new cases of abuse 
during the second quarter of the year and updates three cases 
reported from the first quarter in reftel. 
 
Detained by authorities 
----------------------- 
 
3.  (U) DGM officers arrested independent Belgian journalist Colin 
del Fosse April 16, in the town of Seke-Banza, Bas Congo, for 
allegedly entering mining areas without authorization.  The arrest 
occurred after he informed the local authorities of his desire to 
investigate the March GDRC-BDK clashes, according to a Congolese 
human rights group, Voice of the Voiceless (VSV).  VSV told us April 
22 that the DGM released del Fosse after transferring him to Matadi 
the same day without charge. 
 
4.  (U) Angolan diplomat Pedro Gomes Ngoma allegedly directed and 
participated in the beating of Radio Television Mwangaza (RTM) 
journalist Jean Pierre Ndolo April 19 near Gomes Ngoma's residence 
in Lubumbashi, Katanga province, according to the NGO Committee to 
Protect Journalists.  Police arrested Ndolo while he was unconscious 
and detained him for more than two hours on trespassing charges, 
filed by Gomes Ngoma, before taking Ndolo to the hospital.  Gomes 
Ngoma allegedly had been hostile to RTM reporters since they broke a 
2006 story on the illegal voter registration of Angolans in the DRC 
elections.  A representative from Comite des Observateurs des Droits 
de L'homme (CODHO) confirmed to us April 24 that Ndolo had filed a 
police complaint against Gomes Ngoma for assault and battery. 
According to local journalists, Angola temporarily recalled Gomes 
Ngoma following the incident. 
 
Death threat 
------------ 
 
5.  (U) Austere Malivika Yalal, a journalist with a Radio Television 
Nationale Congolaise (RTNC) local affiliate in North Kivu and 
correspondent for the South Africa based Radio Canal Afrique, 
received a telephone death threat May 10 from Captain Ndaliko of the 
Congolese Party of Resistance (PARECO, an armed group based in 
eastern Congo), according to a May 15 Journaliste en Danger (JED) 
press release.  Captain Ndaliko allegedly said "I will kill you 
before the International Criminal Court arrests us."  Yalal told JED 
May 14 that the threat is related to the April 23 Radio Canal 
Afrique broadcast of an interview with three child soldiers who fled 
from PARECO forces in Kirumba (110 kilometers north of Butembo). 
The child soldiers described the mistreatment they received from 
their superior officers, including a certain Lafontaine and 
Ndaliko. 
 
Interference and intimidation 
----------------------------- 
 
6.  (U) The station manager of RTNC's Kisangani office suspended 
journalist Eddy Abasiko Mango for three months for hosting a program 
during which call in guests criticized the provincial government, 
even though the businessmen he interviewed were allies of the same 
ruling alliance (AMP) as Governor Autsai Asenga.  In addition to 
criticizing the local military commander, call in guests highlighted 
 
KINSHASA 00000693  002 OF 002 
 
 
the problems of electric power shortage and unemployment.  Abasiko 
alleges that the Governor put pressure on the station to discipline 
him.  Abasiko told us May 27 that he is waiting for his three month 
suspension to end before returning to work.  He has not suffered any 
other offense. 
 
7.  (U) Honore Kazadi Lukonde, aka Ngube Ngube, a supporter of 
Katanga Governor Moise Katumbi Chapwe, launched a defamation 
campaign May 24 against the independent station RTM in Lubumbashi, 
according to a May 28 JED press release.  Speaking at a press 
conference, Kazadi vilified RTM and accused it of being a "media 
outlet that propagates hatred, encourages tribalism and divides the 
Katangese people."  The three main media outlets in the region, 
including state-owned RTNC, Radio Television Nyota (owned by the 
governor), and Radio Television Wantanshi (which also supports the 
governor), broadcast Kazadi's message over several days.  RTM CEO 
Rose Lukano told us May 27 that the slander campaign is connected to 
the RTM's independent stance regarding a local mining company's 
controversial road construction project, connecting the Congolese 
city of Kolwezi to the Zambian city of Solwezi.  Governor Katumbi 
opposes the project. 
 
Updates 
------- 
 
8.  (U) ANR agents transferred "L'Interprete" editor Ponte Nsimba 
Embete and assistant David Ntondo Nzovuangu to the main Kinshasa 
prison June 7 (see reftel).  They currently await a court date after 
being charged with spreading false rumors and insulting the 
President.  Nsimba complained to Poloff during a June 12 prison 
visit that the ANR had psychologically tortured him during his three 
month detention. 
 
9.  (U) A JED representative told us June 19 that reporter Justin 
Kabasele of Radio Television Kasai Horizons is now free after 
spending time in hiding (see reftel).  He is currently appealing his 
one year prison sentence for making "damaging" allegations against a 
Mwene-Ditu government employee. 
 
10.  (U) The Bukavu Military Tribunal finished May 21 the appeal 
trial of the four men convicted of the June 13, 2007 murder of Radio 
Okapi editor Serge Maheshe (see reftel).  The court acquitted 
Maheshe friends Alain Mulimbi and Serge Muhima, while reconfirming 
the death sentences of Freddy Bisimwa and Mastakila Rwezangabo and 
pronouncing a new death sentence on previously uncharged Bisimwa 
Sikitu Patient. 
 
11.  (SBU) Comment:  Respect for the freedom and independence of the 
press has yet to firmly take hold in the DRC.  Although it has 
debated the issues, Parliament has not yet drafted new individual 
freedom laws to close the gap between the freedoms guaranteed in the 
2006 Constitution and existing laws on press freedom and freedom of 
speech, which date from the Mobutu era.  End comment. 
 
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