Burundi - Imprisoned journalist still hopeful after appeal postponed, but colleagues are stunned

Reporters without borders

A court in the central city of Gitega began yesterday to hear the appeals of radio journalist Hassan Ruvakuki and 22 other defendants against their terrorism convictions but "to everyone's stupefaction" adjourned until 18 October at the end of the first session, said a Reporters Without Borders representative attending the hearing. "All those who had gone to the hearing had expected to come back the next morning and had made preparations to do this," the Reporters Without Borders (...)

© Reporters sans frontières - mardi 9 octobre 2012