Burundi: Unrelenting Court Gives Journalist Three-Year Jail Term On Appeal

press release

Reporters Without Borders is deeply disappointed to learn that an appeal court in the central city of Gitega today imposed a three-year jail sentence on the journalist Hassan Ruvakuki instead of overturning his conviction.

The court changed the charge on which Ruvakuki is convicted to "participation in an association formed with the aim of attacked persons and property." In June, a lower court sentenced him to life imprisonment on a charge of terrorism.

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