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Kabila government one of "most repressive"

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    The media watchdog, Reporters sans frontieres (RSF), says more than 80 journalists have so far been locked up in the DRC for varying lengths of time, "often without any explanation and usually without being tried". In a recent report, RSF said at least three journalists were still in prison. "Others have been subjected to whipping and ill-treatment. Publications have been seized, radio stations suspended, premises set on fire and
    ransacked," RSF said. "Violations of press freedom have become even more common than during the last years of Marshal Mobutu Sese Seko's dictatorship." It described President Laurent-Desire Kabila's government as one of the most repressive in sub-Saharan Africa.

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