Nsimba Embete Ponte, the editor of biweekly L’Interprète was released on January 7 on completing a 10-month prison sentence for “insulting” DRC President Joseph Kabila by referring to rumours about his health in a series of articles, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported.
Arrested on March 7, 2008 in Kinshasa by members of the National Intelligence Agency (ANR), Ponte was held incommunicado for three months in an ANR building on the bank of the River Congo before being transferred to the main Kinshasa penitentiary.
The sentence was imposed by a neighbourhood court in Kinshasa N’Djili on November 27.
