‘Suspicious death’ of Rwandan journalist prompts calls for investigation

Rights groups raise doubts over road accident in which police say outspoken editor John Williams Ntwali was killed

Amnesty International and the Committee to Protect Journalists, an independent NGO based in New York, are among media and rights organisations calling for an independent investigation into the death of the Rwandan journalist John Williams Ntwali.

Ntwali, a regular critic of the Rwandan authorities, was found dead on 18 January. According to reported police accounts, he was killed in a motorcycle accident in the capital, Kigali.