...Journalist Pili Pili Kasaï was arrested at his home on 13 May 2012. This followed a telephone interview he carried out four days earlier with General La Fontaine, a militia leader, and Colonel Kahasa, a former armed forces officer, who had announced their intention to fight army troops in order to seize control of several areas of the province.
That same day, Radio Liberté's studios were raided by soldiers, police and intelligence officers who confiscated the station's transmitter and other equipment, and briefly detained the eight journalists who were present at the scene.
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