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Kakwenza RUKIRABASHAIJA

Authorities continued to prosecute exiled novelist, Kakwenza Rukirabashaija for ‘offensive communications’ under Section 25 of the Computer Misuse Act although the section was declared…

PEN International 18/03/2025 PEN International 18/03/2025

Innocent BAHATI

The year ended with poet Innocent Bahati still missing since his disappearance on 7 February 2021 after he reportedly went for a dinner meeting with…

PEN International 18/03/2025 PEN International 18/03/2025

Étienne Fakaba SISSOKO

Author, academic and political activist Étienne Fakaba Sissoko was serving a one-year prison term in Kéniéroba Central Prison at the end of the year. Arrested on…

PEN International 18/03/2025 PEN International 18/03/2025

Collective case of writers and journalists detained without trial for 23 years.

September 2024 marked 23 years of the incommunicado detention without trial of a group of Eritrean journalists and writers, including Dawit ISAAK; Amanuel ASRAT; Said Idris ‘ABU ARE’;…

Kakwenza RUKIRABASHAIJA

Innocent BAHATI

Étienne Fakaba SISSOKO

Collective case of writers and journalists detained without trial for 23 years.

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