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Articles - Burundi

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Burundi

Journalists defy media blackout on Gatumba massacre

Journalists are courageously defying a government order not to report on the Gatumba shooting massacre that left more than 35 people dead in Burundi last month, report the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF). It appears to be part of a pattern of censorship.

Burundi

Government extinguishes criticism with legal harassment

With a judiciary vulnerable to political interference, Burundian authorities have been behind a series of politically motivated arrests and summonses of journalists and lawyers to muffle public criticism, report Human Rights Watch, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF).

Burundi

Journalists face legal action and trumped-up charges

A Burundian journalist critical of state security forces faces life in prison if convicted, after being arrested and charged with treason on 17 July, report Human Rights Watch, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF). A month later, another journalist was arrested, imprisoned and charged with defamation after writing an article about government corruption, says Journaliste en danger (JED).

Burundi

Journalists attacked and human rights researcher silenced during election violence

Political violence has intensified in Burundi with members of political groups settling scores just as a series of elections have begun to take place in the country, says Human Rights Watch in its latest report. In a punitive response, days after the report on election violence was released on 14 May, authorities ordered a Human Rights Watch researcher to leave the country by 5 June. Journalists covering election battles have also been attacked.

Burundi

Critics silenced; network of 146 NGOs banned

Burundian authorities outlawed a network of 146 civil society organisations on 23 November, following weeks of intimidation and threats to civil society activists who were demanding accountability for killings in 2009, report Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project (EHAHRDP) in a joint statement.

Burundi

ATACAN A EMPLEADOS DE DIFUSORA PÚBLICA

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DES EMPLOYÉS DU RADIODIFFUSEUR PUBLIC SONT ATTAQUÉS

Burundi

PUBLIC BROADCASTER EMPLOYEES ATTACKED

IFEX members Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) are calling on the Burundi government to investigate two separate attacks last week that killed one employee of the country's public broadcaster and left another staff member wounded.

Burundi

TRIBUNAL ANULA CARGOS CONTRA PERIODISTAS

Burundi

LE TRIBUNAL ANNULE LES CHEFS D'ACCUSATION PORTÉS CONTRE DES JOURNALISTES

Burundi

COURT QUASHES CHARGES AGAINST JOURNALISTS

A court in Burundi has thrown out charges against three journalists accused by the government of threatening national security, a move hailed by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières, RSF).

Burundi

LE GOUVERNEMENT CIBLE LES MILITANTS DE LA SOCIÉTÉ CIVILE ET LES JOURNALISTES

Burundi

GOBIERNO SE CONCENTRA EN ACTIVISTAS DE LA SOCIEDAD CIVIL Y PERIODISTAS

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GOVERNMENT TARGETS CIVIL SOCIETY ACTIVISTS, JOURNALISTS

The human rights situation in Burundi appears to be deteriorating, with a growing number of civil society activists and independent journalists arrested and harassed in recent months, report Human Rights Watch, Journaliste en danger (JED), the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières, RSF) and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).

Burundi

UNE STATION DE RADIO ŒUVRE À LA RÉCONCILIATION

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ESTACIÓN DE RADIO TRABAJA POR RECONCILIACIÓN

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RADIO STATION WORKS FOR RECONCILIATION

In Burundi, where ethnic conflict in the 1990s led to the killing of at least 300,000 civilians, reconciliation is a long slow process. A few brave radio stations are working to overcome that legacy of violence, including Radio Publique Africaine (RPA), reports Dangerous Assignments, the magazine of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).

Burundi

PROHÍBEN A ESTACIONES DE RADIO TRANSMITIR DECLARACIONES DE REBELDES

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DES STATIONS DE RADIO EMPÊCHÉES DE DIFFUSER LES DÉCLARATIONS DE CHEFS REBELLES

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RADIO STATIONS BARRED FROM AIRING REBEL STATEMENTS

In Burundi, where radio is the country's main source of news, President Pierre Buyoya has ordered all private radio stations to stop airing statements or interviews with two rebel groups still at war with the government, report the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières, RSF).

Burundi

GOBIERNO TERMINA RELATIVA APERTURA A LIBERTAD DE PRENSA

Burundi

LE GOUVERNEMENT MET FIN À UNE RELATIVE OUVERTURE À LA LIBERTÉ DE LA PRESSE

Burundi

GOVERNMENT ENDS RELATIVE OPENNESS TO PRESS FREEDOM

Recent arrests and attacks on journalists reported by Human Rights Watch (HRW), Reporters sans frontières (RSF), and the Network for the Defence of Independent Media in Africa (NDIMA) suggest that the government of war-torn Burundi has started a new crackdown on press freedom.

Burundi

LES JOURNALISTES SONT VISÉS DANS UN CLIMAT DE VIOLENCE CROISSANTE

Burundi

PERIODISTAS SE CONVIERTEN EN BLANCOS AL AUMENTAR VIOLENCIA

Burundi

JOURNALISTS TARGETED AS VIOLENCE INCREASES

As violence continues to escalate in Burundi, the Burundian government instructed its army to “treat journalists as legitimate military targets,” the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reports. In a state radio broadcast to army commanders on 9 September, Defense Minister Colonel Alfred Nkurunziza told the army that it should consider journalists as enemies and thus, “legitimate targets, if they entered the Bujumbura Rurale province near the capital, where the army is fighting ethnic Hutu rebels.” According to Reporters san frontières (RSF), journalists were prevented from reporting on