John Williams Ntwali, one of Rwanda’s few journalists who published stories critical of the government, has died.
Ntwali was the sole fatality in a car accident in Kigali on Wednesday, police spokesman John Bosco Kabera told Reuters. The driver of the other vehicle has been arrested and “the accident file is being processed for onward transmission to prosecution,” Kabera said.
Numerous human rights organizations called for an independent investigation into his death, as numerous journalists, advocates, and critics of President Paul Kagame and his ruling party have mysteriously disappeared, been found dead, or been jailed.
Human Rights Watch said he “joins a long list of people who have challenged the government and died in suspicious circumstances.”
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