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Imprisoned
September 17
Michel Luya, Le Palmares, IMPRISONED
Le Palmares, CENSORED
Luya, publisher of the opposition newspaper Le Palmares, was arrested at his home in connection with an article published by his newspaper. The article cited a Swiss source who claimed President Mobutu Sese Seko, who had gone to Europe for medical treatment, would be "operated on for throat cancer after undergoing a surgery on his prostate." Minister of Information and the Press Boguo Makeli said that revealing information about Mobutu's health was an affront to the president of the republic, whose inviolability is constitutionally guaranteed. Luya faces up to 12 months' imprisonment. On Sept. 18, Makeli ordered Le Palmares suspended indefinitely.
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