The Committee to Protect Journalists urges authorities of the Democratic Republic of Congo to allow the provisional release of journalist Stanis Bujakera Tshiamala and drop all legal proceedings against him.
"Journalist Stanis Bujakera should never have been arrested or charged, but the least DRC authorities can do is not oppose his request for provisional release and drop all legal proceedings against him," said Angela Quintal, CPJ's Africa program coordinator, from New York."Bujakera should be released without further delay and allowed to return home to see his family in the U.S.
Bujakera is a permanent U.S. resident with a home in Virginia and works as a correspondent for the privately owned Jeune Afrique news website and Reuters, and is deputy director of publication for the DRC-based news website Actualite.cd, his wife, Armelle Tshiamala, told CPJ.
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