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Journalists freed

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    The Burundian authorities have released two journalists from the private Radio Bonesha FM, detained after the radio broadcast an interview with FNL spokesman Anicet Ntawuhiganayo earlier this month. According to the national human rights organisation ITEKA, Gabriel Nikundana and Abbas Mbasumutima were freed on Friday by the Documentation nationale (secret services) after paying a penalty of 100,000 Burundi francs each. Their case was taken up by the international human rights organisations, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.

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