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Pair freed

Journalist cleared after three months in prison, another bailed pending trial

Published on 1 August 2012Read

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Bizarre confession

Journalist held for “deceiving intelligence services” and “inventing abduction”

Published on 20 July 2012Read

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Radio presenter held pending trial after slip of the tongue

Reporters Without Borders deplores community radio presenter Habarugira Epaphrodite’s detention since 24 April in the main prison of Gitarama, the (...)

Published on 11 May 2012 Read

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Mixed feelings about court’s decision to cut jail time for two women journalists

Reporters Without Borders has “mixed feelings” about yesterday’s supreme court decision to significantly reduce the long jail sentences being served (...)

Published on 6 April 2012 Read

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Three journalists arrested in the space of a week

Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrests of three journalists in the space of a week in Kigali. Two were released yesterday morning but the (...)

Published on 16 November 2011 Read

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UNHCR urged to review decision to withdraw refugee status from Rwandan refugees

Reporters Without Borders fails to understand a decision by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to urge countries that have given asylum to Rwandan (...)

Published on 11 October 2011 Read

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Rugambage murder trial – one defendant gets 10 years, other acquitted

Reporters Without Borders is very sceptical about the verdicts that a high court issued on 15 September in the trial of two men accused of the (...)

Published on 21 September 2011 Read

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Reporters Without Borders demonstrates against President Kagame’s visit to Paris

A score of Reporters Without Borders activists demonstrated outside the Hotel Ritz in Paris at 8 a.m. today in protest against Rwandan President (...)

Published on 13 September 2011 Read

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Bimonthly decides to suspend publication after receiving threats

The publisher of the bimonthly Ishema, Fidèle Gakire, decided jointly with the newspaper’s board to suspend publication for a month on 28 August as (...)

Published on 31 August 2011 Read

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Hunted journalist gets 30-month prison sentence

Reporters Without Borders today condemned the Rwandan supreme court’s sentencing of prominent exiled independent journalist Jean Bosco Gasasira to (...)

Published on 3 June 2011 Read