{{The supreme court Friday sentenced Umuvugizi editor Jean Bosco Gasasira to two and a half years in jail, after finding him guilty of inciting civil disobedience and insulting the president.
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Gasasira was acquitted by a lower court in September but the prosecutor appealed against the acquittal and asked for a 10-year sentence.<\/p>\n
“The supreme court found him guilty of inciting civil disobedience, and insulting the head of state and sentenced him to two years and six months in prison,” a source at the court said.<\/p>\n
Umuvugizi was suspended for six months on 13 April 2010. As tension mounted in the run-up to the August 2010 presidential election, Gasasira went into exile in order to continue working, and launched an online version of the newspaper.<\/p>\n
In June 2010 Jean-Leonard Rugambage, Umuvugizi’s deputy editor, was shot and killed at the gate of his home in Kigali.<\/p>\n
Two men have been jailed for life for the killing but rights groups have charged that the authorities were behind it, a claim they have repeatedly dismissed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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