08-11-2016 ■ Macabre surprise: On 9 August, in the evening, during a field visit by the members of the National Commission for the Human Rights- CNIDH, the Judicial Police, police unit in charge of Civil Protection and agents of the National Intelligence services- SNR to verify the information reported by Iwacu, (...)

08-11-2016 ■ A second body was not easily removed from the Mubarazi River. Journalists have found that the body was loaded with a bag of rocks. Another macabre surprise : Before the execution, murderers had put a bandage around the head of the victim (Additional Information will follow) (...)

08-11-2016 ■ A team of civil protection officers alongside Iwacu journalists on the banks of the Mubarazi river. There, the reporters of the newspaper, in search of their missing colleague, Jean Bigirimana, discovered a body thrown into the river last Sunday. Another corpse was found later on.

The extraction of the body (...)

08-08-2016 ■ Nothing shows that the body discovered by Iwacu was that of journalist Jean Bigirimana. We will soon be well-informed. But whoever he is, he deserves to be buried. After three consecutive days of investigations on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Iwacu journalists finally found a body in the area where (...)

08-08-2016 ■ After three days of investigations on the ground, Iwacu journalists found a body in the area where, according to several sources, the journalist disappeared. Iwacu decided to publish the following account of the investigations. Friday, August 5 Shortly after the disappearance of Jean Bigirimana, Iwacu started an investigation to (...)

08-03-2016 ■ Pieces of information persist pointing to the fact that journalist Jean Bigirimana may be detained in one of the National Intelligence Service’s cells in Muramvya province. This contradicts the enduring denial by the Burundian police that the intelligence service detains the journalist. Our sources say that “he has been (...)

08-02-2016 ■ 11 days on, Jean Bigirimana, the Iwacu journalist has gone missing. 11 days of anxiety and questions but especially in the deafening silence of the national police. The last communication in connection with what appears increasingly like a kidnapping goes back to the tweet of the spokesman of the (...)

07-28-2016 ■ Six days after the missing of our colleague Jean Bigirimana since Friday, 22 July 2016, Iwacu Press Group calls for witnesses. Indeed, in order to help the Burundian justice conduct an investigation over the missing of our colleague, Iwacu invites anyone who might hold information about either the circumstances (...)

07-28-2016 ■ In tears, Godeberthe Hakizimana, spouse ofJean Bigirimana, the Iwacu Press Group journalist requeststhe kidnappers of her husband to release him. This father of two boys waskidnapped at Bugarama in the afternoon of Friday, July 22. It’s been6 days his family and his colleagues have no news about him. (...)

07-26-2016 ■ On the 5th day of the unexplained disappearance of the journalist, from Brussels, the Iwacu Press Group Manager, Antoine Kaburahe, makes an appeal to Burundian authorities. Since the afternoon of last Friday, 22 July, we have no record of our colleague, Jean Bigirimana. While during the weekend the most (...)