Une cour d’appel burundaise a partiellement acquitt\u00e9 la journaliste Sandra Muhoza, mettant fin \u00e0 pr\u00e8s de deux ans de d\u00e9tention qui ont raviv\u00e9 les inqui\u00e9tudes concernant la libert\u00e9 de la presse dans le pays.<\/p>\n
Reporter pour La Nova Burundi, Sandra Muhoza \u00e9tait accus\u00e9e d’avoir partag\u00e9 des informations sensibles dans un groupe WhatsApp priv\u00e9.<\/p>\n
La cour l’a innocent\u00e9e de l’accusation d’atteinte \u00e0 l’unit\u00e9 nationale, mais a confirm\u00e9 sa condamnation pour incitation \u00e0 la haine raciale \u2013 un chef d’accusation passible d’une peine maximale de deux ans.<\/p>\n
Lib\u00e9ration : soulagement et critiques<\/strong><\/p>\n La journaliste a \u00e9t\u00e9 lib\u00e9r\u00e9e sous caution le 4 mars, apr\u00e8s \u00eatre apparue visiblement affaiblie lors des pr\u00e9c\u00e9dentes audiences.<\/p>\n Son avocat, Eric Ntibandetse, s’est f\u00e9licit\u00e9 de l’acquittement sur le chef d’accusation principal, mais a qualifi\u00e9 l’affaire de sans fondement, arguant que la condamnation restante l’\u00e9tait tout autant.<\/p>\n Questions sur la justice et les droits de la personne<\/p>\n Ses proches affirment que cette d\u00e9tention prolong\u00e9e pour ce qui constitue finalement une infraction mineure soul\u00e8ve de s\u00e9rieuses questions quant \u00e0 l’\u00e9quit\u00e9 du syst\u00e8me judiciaire.<\/p>\n \u00ab Pr\u00e8s de deux ans de prison pour une peine de six mois soul\u00e8ve des questions de dignit\u00e9 humaine \u00bb, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 un membre de la famille.<\/p>\n La libert\u00e9 de la presse sous surveillance<\/strong><\/p>\n Sous la pr\u00e9sidence d’\u00c9variste Ndayishimiye, le Burundi s’est efforc\u00e9 de rompre son isolement international.<\/p>\n Cependant, les organisations de d\u00e9fense des droits humains affirment que les progr\u00e8s restent limit\u00e9s, le pays figurant parmi les derniers classements mondiaux en mati\u00e8re de libert\u00e9 de la presse.<\/p>\n Cette affaire met en lumi\u00e8re les tensions persistantes entre le pouvoir d’\u00c9tat et le journalisme ind\u00e9pendant au Burundi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Une cour d’appel burundaise a partiellement acquitt\u00e9 la journaliste Sandra Muhoza, mettant fin \u00e0 pr\u00e8s de deux ans de d\u00e9tention qui ont raviv\u00e9 les inqui\u00e9tudes concernant la libert\u00e9 de la presse dans le pays. Reporter pour La Nova Burundi, Sandra Muhoza \u00e9tait accus\u00e9e d’avoir partag\u00e9 des informations sensibles dans un groupe WhatsApp priv\u00e9. La cour […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"","format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"topbottom","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politique-africaine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17773,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17770\/revisions\/17773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}