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.
They will await trial in a nearby prison and could face up to five years in jail on conviction, a judge said on condition of anonymity. “Those school children are not engaged in any political fights and need no political posts. That’s why judges have to consider all those issues in their investigations.”
In another incident in the same year, more than 300 students of a school in the capital’s Ruziba neighbourhood were sent home after being accused of defacing Nkurunziza’s image.
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