World Report 2008: Burundi

With a month to go before national elections, Burundi has seen a disturbing escalation in attacks, threats, and arbitrary arrests of journalists.

Burundian authorities are using procedural loopholes to stall Sandra Muhoza’s appeal, heightening RSF’s concerns of a calculated effort to prolong her unjust detention.

In Burundi, journalists must choose between silence and exile, as the government wages an unrelenting campaign to crush independent media.