Burundi - Media regulator suspends comments on press group's website

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is disturbed to learn that the National Communication Council (CNC), Burundi's media regulator, has ordered the Iwacu press group to prevent visitors to its website (www.iwacu-burundi.org) from posting comments for the next 30 days. “This is unprecedented,” Reporters Without Borders said. “Until now, the CNC had never taken a disciplinary measure against a website, still less an online forum. Would it not be more appropriate to take issue with the comments regarded as (...)

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