Rwanda - Rwanda's media self-regulator subjected to intimidation campaign

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders calls on the Rwandan authorities to defend the Rwanda Media Commission (RMC), the media self -regulatory body, against all the attacks it has received for objecting to the suspension of the BBC's Kinyarwanda-language broadcasts on 25 October. The attacks began in earnest yesterday, with dozen of tweets in the space of a few hours lambasting the RMC, the legality of its mandate, and its president, Fred Muvunyi. Muvunyi dared argue that, as a broadcast frequency (...)

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