(JED/IFEX) – Journalist in Danger (JED) has welcomed the 30 October 2006 release of Aloys Kabura, a Kayanza-based correspondent for the Burundian Press Agency (Agence burundaise de presse, ABP). Kayanza is a province located in northern Burundi. The journalist spent five months in jail in the central prison of Ngozi. On 18 September 2006, the […]
(JED/IFEX) – Journalist in Danger (JED) has welcomed the 30 October 2006 release of Aloys Kabura, a Kayanza-based correspondent for the Burundian Press Agency (Agence burundaise de presse, ABP). Kayanza is a province located in northern Burundi. The journalist spent five months in jail in the central prison of Ngozi.
On 18 September 2006, the Ngozi High Court sentenced Kabura to five months in prison with no parole for “rebellion” and “defamatory statements”.
On 31 May 2006, Kabura was arrested for comments he made during a private conversation on 20 April in a Kayanza bar known as Le Carrefour. The journalist said that 30 journalists who were detained illegally by police for seven hours at the home of parliamentarian Matthias Basobe on 17 April 2006 had been tortured.
During his trial, his lawyers asked that the charges against the journalist be dropped, or that he be acquitted without further delay. They denounced a political plot against Kabura.
