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Stanley Gatera is serving a one-year prison sentence for an opinion piece that he did not write. The piece suggests that men might regret marrying an ethnic Tutsi woman solely for her beauty.
Rwanda Highlights
Free Expression & the LawARTICLE 19 notes that a media law adopted in Rwanda on 11 March provides some safeguards for freedom of the press, but contains too many provisions which pose a threat to journalists.
Free Expression & the LawA comprehensive access to information law came into effect in Rwanda on 11 March. Its passage makes Rwanda the 11th African country with a right to information law.
Stanley Gatera has been sentenced to a one-year jail term and fines of 30,000 Rwandan francs (US$50) for inciting divisionism and gender discrimination in an opinion column.
Human Rights Watch
Privacy International
Reporters Without Borders
Committee to Protect Journalists
International Federation of Journalists
Reporters Without Borders
ARTICLE 19
ARTICLE 19
ARTICLE 19
Reporters Without Borders
ARTICLE 19
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders
Attacks Free Expression & the Law
31 August 2011
Human Rights Watch
ARTICLE 19
Reporters Without Borders
Human Rights Watch
Reporters Without Borders
ARTICLE 19
ARTICLE 19
Human Rights Watch
Reporters Without Borders
ARTICLE 19
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