Burundian authorities have charged three schoolgirls accused of defacing a pictu...
NAIROBI - Burundian authorities have charged three schoolgirls accused of defacing a picture of President Pierre Nkurunziza, spokeswoman for the country’s Supreme Court, Agnès Bangiricenge, said on Thursday.
All were all accused of insulting Nkurunziza by scribbling over images of him printed in their school text books. “It is true that scribbling is a punishable offence under the Burundian law but since it was committed by teenagers, I believe this is a mitigating circumstance,” David Ninganza, a children’s rights defender working for local group SOGEPAE, told Reuters.
In 2016, 11 children were jailed on accusations of defacing a photograph of Nkurunziza in a school text book.
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