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RELEASE
<https://rsf.org/en/news/rsf-condemns-drcs-latest-internet-blackout>​26.02.2018
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* ​DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO​​RSF condemns DRC's lastest internet
blackout​Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the authorities in the
Democratic Republic of Congo to stop systematically disconnecting the
Internet whenever opposition protest marches are held. *

The entire country was deprived of the Internet from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on
Sunday, 25 February
<http://koaci.com/marche-catholiques-contre-kabila-deux-morts-coupure-dinternet-117660.html>,
while thousands of people marched through the streets of the capital,
Kinshasa, and provincial cities in protest against President Joseph
Kabila’s refusal to stand down although his term of office has ended.

Called by the Catholic Church and the Lay Coordination Committee, the
protests were dispersed violently by the security forces with an estimated
toll of two dead
<http://www.rfi.fr/afrique/20180226-repression-marches-comite-laic-reaction-gouvernement>,
47 wounded and more than 100 arrests.

“*Once again, the authorities have used an opposition protest as grounds
for giving the order to block all Internet communications*,” RSF said.
“*Preventing
information from circulating does not help to limit the violence or conceal
the crackdown on the protests. The Congolese people must not be deprived of
its fundamental right to be informed.*”

The authorities already suspended messaging services, social networks and
other Internet services during previous opposition marches on 31 December
and 21 January. As a result, RSF and 12 other international and Congolese
NGOs sent a joint letter
<https://internetwithoutborders.org/empecher-prochaine-coupure-internet-rdc-lettre-ouverte-gouvernement/>
to the prime minister and the minister of telecommunications on 23 February
urging them not to do it again during Sunday’s march.

The DRC is ranked 154th out of 180 countries in RSF's 2017 World Press
Freedom Index <https://rsf.org/en/ranking>.





Mélisande Massoubre
Responsable du Bureau Afrique - Head of the Africa Desk

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