Agnès Nkusi Uwimana, the editor of Rwanda's privately-owned fortnightly Umurabyo, has been released after serving a one-year sentence for "creating divisions," "sectarianism" and "defamation" by writing a column headlined "You have problems if you kill a Tutsi, but you go free if you kill a Hutu." At her trial she admitted the charges, requested forgiveness from all those who felt wronged by what she had written and asked the court to show clemency. She now plans to relaunch her paper, which has not been published since her arrest. (Via IFEX)
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