Congo-Kinshasa: Radio Station Director Wins Court Case After Decree Protecting Journalists

press release

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) welcomes this week's decision by a court in Bukavu, in the eastern province of Sud-Kivu, to pass a jail sentence on a regional government employee for threatening Donat Musema, the director of Bukavu-based community radio station Iriba FM, in June 2015.

Coming in the wake of a decree ratified by Sud-Kivu's governor a month ago on the protection of journalists, the ruling is a victory for freedom of information.

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