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Repeated violations of press freedom reported

    NAIROBI

    Forty journalists were arrested and held in solitary cells by DRC security services during 1999, but only three remained behind bars at the end of the year, the press freedom watchdog Reporters sans frontieres (RSF) stated on Tuesday. A number of journalists from DRC had gone into exile fearing for their lives, while others had been sentenced for "revealing
    state secrets" or "attacking territorial integrity," RSF stated. In all, it said, some 100 journalists had been imprisoned for shorter or longer periods since President Laurent-Desire Kabila came to power in 1997.

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