Rwanda - Journalist cleared after three months in prison, another bailed pending trial

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The journalist Habarugira Epaphrodite was released yesterday after spending three months in prison. A day earlier, he was acquitted by the Muhanga district court in southern Rwanda, which ruled that the charges against him were without foundation. For more information click here: http://en.rsf.org/rwanda-journalist.... In another case, Idriss Gassana Byiringiro, a journalism student and reporter for the newspaper Chronicles, was also freed pending trial. He got out of prison today. The (...)

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