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Comedian Detained For ‘cracking Joke’ On President by Singingbae(m): 7:06pm On Apr 01, 2016 |
A popular Burundi comedian known as "Kigingi" was
arrested this week after poking fun at the president,
his family said Friday.
Humorist and Buja FM radio host Alfred Aubin Mugenzi
was arrested on Tuesday evening by Burundi's National
Intelligence Service (known by its French acronym, SNR)
and charged with insulting President Pierre Nkurunziza.
He was apprehended at a hotel in Muramvya, 50
kilometres (31 miles) east of the capital, while on a
promotional tour for a beer company.
"He was transferred to Bujumbura and is being held in
the SNR dungeons, but no one has been allowed to see
him", said a concerned relative, who did not want to be
named for fear of repercussions.
The relative said Mugenzi's family fears the funny man
may suffer the same fate as others taken by the SNR,
who rights groups say are commonly tortured or simply
disappeared. Many hare reported to have died in jail.
SNR officers told the relative that Mugenzi was arrested
"for contempt of the head of state" after a skit he
performed in neighbouring Rwanda last year, in which
he lampooned football-mad third-term Nkurunziza,
showing him refusing to leave the pitch despite receiving
two yellow cards.
Nkurunziza's refusal to stand down after two terms and
instead run for a controversial third mandate in 2015
triggered bloody unrest, a failed military coup and
months of violence that has killed hundreds of people
and driven a quarter of a million to flee the country.
Nkurunziza, a born-again Christian and former sports
teacher, is the player-owner of Hallelujah FC, where he is
frequently the top scorer.
An intelligence official confirmed Mugenzi's arrest saying
the comic routine was "insulting the president".
"He will soon be released, this time," the official added. www.vanguardngr.com/2016/04/comedian-detained-cracking-joke-president/ |
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