CPJ calls for end to impunity in Congo
From CPJ - Following the brutal murder on Sunday of radio journalist Bruno Koko Chirambiza in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo - the third journalist to be slain in the restive region since 2007 - the Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Congolese authorities to end the alarming pattern of impunity in journalist murders.
Eight unidentified assailants in civilian clothing attacked Chirambiza, 24, a presenter for private Star Radio in the capital of South Kivu province, Bukavu, as he was walking home from a wedding with a friend early Sunday morning, according to the press freedom group Journaliste en Danger and local journalists.
Two other journalists have been murdered in unclear circumstances in Bukavu in the last 26 months: Serge Maheshe and Didace Namujimbo, both of UN-sponsored network Radio Okapi. Chirambiza was the sixth Congolese journalist murdered since 2005, according to CPJ research.
Read the full CPJ statement here
24 August 2009
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