Congo-Kinshasa: Editor of Private Newspaper Abducted, Detained in Secret Location Following Publication of Articles About President's Health

press release

On 7 March 2008, Nsimba Embete Ponte, the editor of the privately-owned twice-weekly newspaper "L'interprète", published in Kinshasa, was abducted by unidentified armed men near a bus stop in the Kinshasa neighbourhood of Masina.

The journalist is being held in a secret location and the official motives for his arrest remain unknown.

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