After arriving to conduct an interview with the head of Kinshasa’s main hospital – as part of coverage of a doctors’ strike – the two journalists were seized by three people who identified themselves as agents of the Military Detection of Anti-National Activities service (DEMIAP).

“Three people in civilian clothes presented themselves as military intelligence officers and took away our (video) equipment roughly led us to their boss, a major who told us we were “under arrest”, the two journalists said.

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