Rwanda - Mixed feelings about court's decision to cut jail time for two women journalists

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders has “mixed feelings” about yesterday's supreme court decision to significantly reduce the long jail sentences being served by Agnes Uwimana Nkusi, the editor of the privately-owned bimonthly Umurabyo, and Saidat Mukakibibi, one her reporters, who have been held since July 2010 on charges of inciting civil disobedience, causing divisions and denying the 1994 genocide of the Tutsis. “The reduction in the length of the jail terms is obviously to be welcomed as they were (...)

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