DRC: Journalist in police custody in Kinshasa

Phambu Lutete, the publisher of the Kinshasa-based bi-weekly newspaper "La Tolérance", has been in the custody of Kinshasa's Provincial Police Inspection (IPK) unit since his arrest on 6 May 2007. On 8 May, Lutete was transferred to the Kinshasa/Matete High Court Prosecutor's Office. The journalist was charged with "threatening and attempted swindling" of Pauline Ipeluka, a senior official with Kinshasa's property tax office.