DR Congo reporter to remain in jail pending appeal: lawyer
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Kinshasa: A prominent DR Congo journalist who was due to be released from prison on Tuesday will remain in jail pending an appeal of his sentence, his...
Kinshasa: A prominent DR Congo journalist who was due to be released from prison on Tuesday will remain in jail pending an appeal of his sentence, his lawyer said.
Stanis Bujakera, 33, was sentenced Monday to six months in prison for allegedly incriminating in an article the country's military intelligence in the murder of an opposition politician Cherubin Okende.
The unsigned story was published in the Jeune Afrique magazine and based on an alleged confidential memo from a separate intelligence agency. Congolese authorities have said the memo is a fake.
A Kinshasa court found Bujakera guilty on charges including forgery and "spreading false rumours" and ordered the six-month sentence along with a fine of one million Congolese francs ($400). Prosecutors had asked that Bujakera be jailed for 20 years.
As Bujakera had already spent six months in detention, he was due to be released on Tuesday after his employer paid the fine and all court costs.
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