(NDIMA/IFEX) – According to NDIMA, on 25 March 1998, authorities in Burundi seized copies of a pro-opposition newspaper and closed down the offices of a second publication. Police seized copies of “L’Aube de la democratie” (The Dawn of Democracy), published in the capital by the mostly Hutu Frodebu party, for the first time in two […]
(NDIMA/IFEX) – According to NDIMA, on 25 March 1998, authorities in Burundi
seized copies of a pro-opposition newspaper and closed down the offices of a
second publication. Police seized copies of “L’Aube de la democratie” (The
Dawn of Democracy), published in the capital by the mostly Hutu Frodebu
party, for the first time in two years, witnesses said.
On 27 March 1998, internal intelligence service agents closed down the
office of the Bujumbura news agency Net-Press and took its director Jean
Claude Kavumbagu in for questioning, witnesses said. He was later released.
Simon Kururu, president of the National Communication Council in the
Information Ministry, confirmed that
police shut down Net-Press and seized copies of the Frodebu newspaper. He
gave no reason for the action.
A senior Net-Press employee said authorities closed the office because of a
report it published on 25 March 1998, which dealt with the confiscations of
copies of the Frodebu newspaper.
“On Wednesday, many of these journals were in the kiosks .They were selling
it openly, but then the police began to pull it from the stands”, said the
employee, who declined to be identified.
