A Dutch journalist and her South African cameraman were arrested by soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday and released a few hours later.
Anneke Verbraeken and the cameraman were detained in a hospital in the capital Kinshasa where they were filming the bodies of people killed during Friday’s election disturbances. The situation was very tense, according to the Dutch journalist’s lawyer, Jan Hofdijk. He says other foreigners were arrested, too.
Ms Verbraken works for several Dutch media, including Radio Netherlands Worldwide. Over the past two months, she has been covering the presidential elections in the DRC, often critically. "Everyone knows: President Joseph Kabila rigged the vote to stay in power," she recently wrote on her blog. "The international community knows that these elections were a mess and don´t deserve to be called elections."
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