29.12.10 International Freedom of Expression Exchange Clearing House (Toronto): Journalist Robert Shemahamba Released After Ten Days in Custody, Another Journalist Reported Missing

"In Uvira, I was put in a cell without any light. The conditions were
poor and I had to protest. I was then transferred to Bukavu after a
week. I think I will recover here for a while before going back to
Uvira," Shemahamba told Reporters Without Borders.

Meanwhile, there is continuing uncertainty about the fate of another
journalist, Dominique Kalonzo, a correspondent in Uvira for the
privately-owned Radio Maendeleo, based in Bukavu.

The journalist is being sought by the ANR in connection with the same
case as Shemahamba. After going into hiding for a week, he was
reportedly involved in an altercation in Uvira on 26 December with ANR
agents sent to arrest him. He was injured and taken to a health centre
in the city.

According to information obtained by Journalist in danger (JED), a
partner organisation of Reporters Without Borders in the Democratic
Republic of Congo, Kalonzo left the hospital in the company of two
individuals who came to visit him. Nothing has been heard of him since.
Neither his family nor his colleagues know if he has been abducted or is
in hiding.

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