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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.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/04/comedian-detained-cracking-joke-president/

henroe2k2:
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.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/04/comedian-detained-cracking-joke-president/

coming from another retard african country. Ah who do africa offended?.