Dakar, April 28, 2022 — Congolese experts ought to drop the arraignment of writer Sébastien Mulamba, quit goading him, and explore the assault on his home, the Journalists Project Committee said Thursday.
At around 3 a.m. on April 21, police caught Mulamba, a reporter and top of the elite Kisangani News, at his home in Kisangani, the capital of the northern area of Tshopo, as demonstrated by press reports and the essayist, who chatted with CPJ by phone. Similarly, Mulamba appears as a guest investigator on adjacent public transmissions, according to those sources.
Mulamba and Ernest Mukula, a specialist of the Congolese National Press Union in Kisangani, let CPJ in that they acknowledge the catch is counter to Mulamba's guest investigation on the program "Arrange Hebo," broadcast by Radio Flamboyant Orient at the University of Kisangani. During the program, Mulamba repeatedly criticized the official head of the Tshopo region, Abibu Sakapela, the feature writer told CPJ, without elucidating.
"Congolese experts ought to drop the charges against Sébastien Mulamba and analyze the ruthless attack on his home," said Angela Quintal, CPJ's Africa program facilitator, from New York. "Journalists in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are over and over again presented with horrible baiting and catch."
Mulamba told CPJ that the small number of officially dressed authorities who caught Mulamba on April 21 wore hoods over their appearances, which compelled them to head into the house, break entrances and windows, and end up high up, Mulamba said. After getting to the house, the experts restricted Mulamba's choices, took his phone, and couldn't figure out the avocation for the catch, the author told CPJ. Mulamba said. "They [the police] found me before my children and tied me up without explaining to me why."
Authorities then, at that point, took Mulamba to the close police central command and held him for six hours, he told CPJ. The police conveyed him with his phone and blamed him for unlawful responsibility for, criminal alliance, and equipped thievery. The things in Mulamba's phone had been cleaned, he said.
She said police encouraged Mulamba to be ready to return, expecting that they would call. At whatever point he is considered to be obligated, Mulamba deals with capital repercussion under articles 85 and 150 of the Penal Code. Mulamba denied the charges, telling CPJ they are unjustifiable.
CPJ's calls to Sakapela went unanswered. Comment messages sent through the illuminating application to Sakapela and Kazingu Voda, a Kisangani police agent, were stepped "read" at this point got no response.
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