Radio Publique Africaine
African Public Radio (Radio Publique Africaine or RPA) is a public radio station in Burundi. In 2009, Le Monde described it as "one of the most widely listened-to stations in the country".[1] The station's motto is "la voix des sans-voix" ("the voice of the voiceless").[1]
In February 2003, Sinduhije's house was broken into and his security guard murdered in apparent retaliation for the station's reporting.
For Sinduhije's work with the station, he was honored with the 2004 International Press Freedom Award of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).[3] In 2009, Time named him to its Time 100, an "annual list of the world's most influential people".[2] Sinduhije left the station in December 2007 in order to pursue a political career.[1]
In July and August 2011, RPA editor Bob Rugurika was summoned five times by magistrates asking him to "correct" the station's reporting that a Burundian government official had been implicated in a 1996 massacre by a United Nations report, which the CPJ described as part of a pattern of "harassment of independent journalists who report critically about the administration".[6] Reporters from an RPA station in Ngozi were also summoned to court.[7]
In 2015, the government shut down Radio Publique Africaine during the
References
- ^ a b c "Burundi : Alexis Sinduhije enfin libre". Le Monde (in French). 19 March 2009. Archived from the original on 6 March 2012. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
- ^ a b c Christiane Amanpour (30 April 2009). "Alexis Sinduhije". Time. Archived from the original on May 5, 2008. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
- ^ a b c "CPJ International Press Freedom Awards 2004". The Committee to Protect Journalists. 2004. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
- ^ "Burundi: Des journalistes soumis à des attaques constantes" (in French). Amnesty International. 20 February 2003. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
- ^ "Radio crackdown in Burundi". BBC News. 17 September 2003. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
- ^ Mohamed Keita (11 August 2011). "Burundi's journalists and lawyers face intense harassment". Committee to Protect Journalists. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
- ^ "Burundi government harassing independent broadcasters". Committee to Protect Journalists. 3 August 2011. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
- ^ "Burundi Journalists Protest Closing of Radio Station". Voice of America. 3 May 2015.
- ^ "Government coup against news media". Reporters Without Borders. 30 Apr 2015.
- ^ "Gun clashes rage on in Burundi as radio station attacked". nation.co.ke. 14 May 2015.
- ^ "Burundi coup bid: Rivals battle to control Bujumbura". BBC. 15 May 2015.
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