KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A dozen men scaled the wall of the private Congolese television station that is supporting the country's leading opposition presidential candidate. Investigators say the attackers doused the offices in gasoline and set them ablaze.
Two employees escaped the inferno only by climbing an air conditioning shaft onto the roof.
Journalists in Congo are being shot at, beaten up by police officers and illegally detained. Life for reporters has become ever more dangerous as tensions rise ahead of presidential and legislative elections scheduled in November.
"Freedom of the press is guaranteed on paper, in the constitution, but the reality we observe on the …
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