France, March 23 -- Prominent Congolese journalist Stanis Bujakera, released from prison this week after spending six months behind bars, has accused the government of seeking to intimidate journalists looking into thedeath of an opposition politician.

Bujakera, who is deputy director of the Actualite.cd news siteand a regular contributor toRFI and internationaloutlets, said that he had beentargeted by the state for reporting on the deathof Cherubin Okende.

A former minister and spokesman for the opposition party Ensemble pour la Republique("Together for the Republic"), Okende disappeared on 12 July last year.

His bullet-riddled body was found in his car in Kinshasa the following day.

Bujakera was arrested in September over a report t...