{"id":25284,"date":"2011-08-04T15:28:50","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T14:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=25284"},"modified":"2011-08-04T15:28:50","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T14:28:50","slug":"drc-radio-host-suspended-by-provincial-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=25284","title":{"rendered":"DRC: Radio host suspended by provincial minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The provincial minister responsible for information and media in Nord-Kivu,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/drc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Democratic Republic of Congo<\/a>, has <a href=\"http:\/\/en.rsf.org\/democratic-republic-of-congo-nord-kivu-provincial-minister-03-08-2011,40740.html\" target=\"_blank\">suspended<\/a>\u00a0a Mishapi Voice TV radio host until further notice.\u00a0In a 30 July letter to the station&#8217;s CEO, Naason Kubuya Ndoole\u00a0accused Jacques \u201cDjasadjasa\u201d Nyamugenda of \u201cdefamatory and insulting comments about the local authorities.\u201d He claimed that, during broadcasts on the evening of 29 July, Nyamugenda insulted a provincial minister \u201cwhose conduct is irreproachable.\u201d Ndoole did not, however, give details of the offending comments or name the minister he believed had been defamed. In the same letter, he asked Mishapi Voice TV\u2019s chief to \u201cinitiate disciplinary action against this programme host as soon as you receive this letter&#8221;, adding that Nyamugenda \u201cis not permitted to work for any other broadcaster in this province until further notice.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The provincial minister responsible for information and media in Nord-Kivu,\u00a0Democratic Republic of Congo, has suspended\u00a0a Mishapi Voice TV radio host until further notice.\u00a0In a 30 July letter to the station&#8217;s CEO, Naason Kubuya Ndoole\u00a0accused Jacques \u201cDjasadjasa\u201d Nyamugenda of \u201cdefamatory and insulting comments about the local authorities.\u201d He claimed that, during broadcasts on the evening of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[2824,3596,3597,3598,727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25301,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25284\/revisions\/25301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}