Gitega : Emilienne Sibomana acquitted by the Court of Appeal
The ruling on the Emilenne Sibomana case fell last Friday. The information is confirmed by lawyer Michella Niyonizigiye, her lawyer. This specifies that the judgment was pronounced and notified to its client on Tuesday at the central prison of Gitega (political capital) where she has been incarcerated for more than a year.
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Emilenne Sibomana had been sentenced by the Gitega First Instance Court.
She had been accused of slanderous denunciation for having denounced, during a meeting with the Minister of Education François Havyarimana, sexual abuses perpetrated by Abbot Leonard Ntakarutimana, director of the Technical Lycée Christ Roi of Mushasha, against female pupils of this school.
On June 13, during her last appearance before the Gitega Court of Appeal, Emilienne Sibomana had said she did not understand how Father Léonard Ntakarutimana always stayed at the head of the Technical Lycée Christ Roi of Mushasha.
“A prelate that continues to tarnish and drag in the mud the image of the Catholic Church in Burundi”.
She had been sentenced by the Gitega First Instance Court to five years in jail as well as the payment of a compensation of 5,000,000 Burundi francs.
Teacher Emilienne Sibomana, Dr
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