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Spate of arrests

Three journalists arrested in the space of a week

Published on 16 November 2011Read

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End to refugee status?

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

Published on 11 October 2011Read

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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

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17 years in jail for one woman journalist, seven years for another

Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the pigheadedness and cruelty of the Rwandan judicial system, which has just passed extremely long jail (...)

Published on 4 February 2011 Read

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Around 30 news media closed a few days ahead of presidential election

With just a week to go to a presidential election on 9 August, the Rwandan authorities are openly flouting the rules of the democratic game. (...)

Published on 2 August 2010 Read

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Offensive against media continues with arrest of fortnightly’s editor

Reporters Without Borders calls on the European Union and other international donors to suspend their assistance to the Rwandan government and to (...)

Published on 13 July 2010 Read

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Newspaper’s deputy editor gunned down outside home in Kigali

Reporters Without Borders is shocked and outraged to learn that Jean-Léonard Rugambage, the deputy editor of the fortnightly Umuvugizi, was gunned (...)

Published on 25 June 2010 Read