DRC: Newspaper publisher detained in Kinshasa

On 6 March 2006, Jean-Pierre Pambu Lutete, publisher of the Kinshasa-based newspaper "La Tolérance", was transferred to Kinshasa's Penitentiary and Reeducation Centre (Centre pénitentiaire et de rééducation de Kinshasa, CPRK, formerly Makala Central Prison). The journalist was placed under arrest just before noon on 3 March 2006 by the Kinshasa/Kalamu Public Prosecutor's office for "damaging allegations" and "inciting tribal hatred" against Michel Tudu Zingo te Lando at the Land Registry Office of Funa, a district of Kinshasa. At issue is an article he published entitled: "Pillage and collusion in the fraudulent sale of lands left to the Mount Amba Land Registration Department: Steward Michel Tudu Zingo te Lando has his hands in the coffers".