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Journalist’s continuing detention criticised

    NAIROBI
    Meanwhile, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has criticised the year-long detention without trial by the Kinshasa government of journalist Joseph Mbakulu Pambu Diana, director of the private station Radio-TV Matadi. “The imprisonment of Pambu Diana is a clear violation of the internationally recognised right of journalists to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds,” a CPJ press release stated. Pambu Diana was charged in the non-jury Court of Military Order with conspiracy after alleged collaboration with rebels who had seized the town of Matadi in August 1998. The town was subsequently recaptured by government-allied forces.

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