By Our Reporter Jean-Claude, a reader of Andrew Mwenda’s recent article asked Mwenda an interesting question: “Are you about to change loyalty from the guy who makes your ends meet? Or perhaps, ‘the guy’ doesn’t pay you on time these days?” The reader was reacting to Mwenda’s changed language in describing Rwanda and its ruler [...]
By Gasasira, Sweden The organization for the freedom of journalists( Reporters without borders) RSF) and another local organization in Congo(Journaliste en danger(JED) are concerned with decisions of the M23 rebels towards the media of Congo after the overrunning (Capture)of Goma. These organizations are also concerned with violence of M23 rebels towards civilians and threats towards [...]
By Our Agencies “Mr. Kabila, you promised to combat impunity” Reporters Without Borders and its partner organization, Journalist in Danger (JED), gave a news conference in Kinshasa today, the eve of the start of a Francophonie summit in the same city, in order to present a report on the state of freedom of information [...]
Journalist cleared after three months in prison, another stays in custody By Our Reporter Habarugira Epaphrodite, a former journalist with the community radio station Huguka, was acquitted by the Muhanga district court in southern Rwanda yesterday after being held in custody since 24 April. He was due to be released yesterday . Epaphrodite was [...]
By Gasasira , Sweden Reporters Without Borders deplores community radio presenter Habarugira Epaphrodite’s detention since 24 April in the main prison of Gitarama, the capital of Muhanga district, on a charge of “minimizing” the 1994 Tutsi genocide and “spreading genocide ideology.” Epaphrodite was arrested because, while reading a report about ceremonies marking the 18th anniversary of [...]
By Gasasira, Sweden A prosecutor in the eastern city of Cankuzo yesterday requested life imprisonment for journalist Hassan Ruvakuki and 22 other people who are charged with “participating in acts of terrorism” by a new rebel group operating in the east of the country. A reporter for Bonesha FM and the Swahili service of Radio France Internationale, Ruvakuki [...]
Interior Minister Orders Cancellation of Human Rights Watch News Conference By Our Reporter The Burundian Interior Minister ordered Human Rights Watch to cancel a news conference in the capital, Bujumbura, on May 2, 2012, that was planned to release a report on political violence in Burundi, Human Rights Watch said today. The police also ordered [...]
By Our Reporter In it’s press release today on the world freedom day , reporter without borders defined president Kagame as a president with a thin face, tall figure, intellectual’s glasses and conservative suits, who looks more like a modern, Internet-savvy defining him as a politician than a former guerrilla chief and war lord, who [...]
Act Swiftly to End Impunity, Prevent Further Killings By Our Reporter Scores of people have been killed in political attacks in Burundi since the end of 2010, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The killings, some by state agents and members of the ruling party, others by armed opposition groups, reflect widespread [...]
Bernard Ntaganda, Journalists in Prison for Expressing Critical Views By Our Reporter The confirmation by the Rwandan Supreme Court of a four-year prison sentence for Bernard Ntaganda, an opposition leader, is a blow for those who had hoped the Court might protect free speech, Human Rights Watch said yesterday . Ntaganda, founding president of the [...]