Human Rights Defender Télesphore Namukama, was reportedly arrested on the 12th of February, by agents of the Direction de Securitte et Renseignements (D.S.R.). He is currently being held in detention in a DSR cell in Bukavu, without formal charges or access to a lawyer. The detention is reportedly in connection with his statement on a radio program that people with bad motivations had used the timing of the visit of the President to get media attention for the assassinations they were carrying out, in order to jeopardize efforts by the government to restore security. 
