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...Burundi law enforcement officials are holding former Shorenstein fellow Alexis Sinduhije in custody for allegedly expressing contempt for the country’s president...
Although no official charges have been issued against Sinduhije, officials suggest that the statements that he made in the documents could result in charges of “insulting the President,” Burundi police spokesman Pierre Chanel Ntarabaganyi told the Human Rights Watch. Ntarabaganyi said that the movement’s illegal status alone was enough to result in Sinduhije’s arrest...
...government] is determined to silence him before the 2010 elections,” a Burundi NGO representative, who wished to remained anonymous because of the sensitivity of the situation, wrote in an e-mail. “There is no evidence to justify the charges against Alexis,” the NGO representative said...
...founded an independent radio station in Burundi with the goal of encouraging reconciliation between Hutu and Tutsi Burundians...
...Burundi's government, however, says it is concerned about security, and that Sinduhije is being treated justly. "I don't think that the reason they arrest him is to scare him or is in connection to the upcoming election," Celestin Niyongabo, the Burundian ambassador to the United States, told TIME. "Burundi is a country emerging from conflict," and given potential security threats, "the police had the right to go and look at what is happening in the house of any citizen." He emphasized that Sinduhije has access to a lawyer. He could not say when the trial would...