Congo-Kinshasa: DRC - Another Journalist Arrested On Complaint By Sankuru Province Governor

press release

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) joins its Congolese partner organization, Journalist in Danger (JED), in condemning the repeated and unacceptable harassment of journalists in Sankuru province, in the centre of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

François Lendo, the manager of local Radio Losanganya, was about fly from Lodja, a city in Sankuru province, on 15 September to attend a meeting of the Congolese journalists' union but landed in prison instead after being arrested at Lodja airport.

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