Why a Rwandan sports reporter fled his home

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Why a Rwandan sports reporter fled his home
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Rwandan journalists tell the BBC how oppression at home forced them to become refugees.

This appeared to contradict the official version of the peace and reconciliation activist's death - that he had taken his own life while in a police cell a few days after being arrested trying to flee the country.Gospel singer Kizito Mihigo was one of Rwanda's most popular performers

"I sat down with my editor and I said: 'We need to find out who is beating these people because these journalists were claiming that it was government agents hitting them,'" he told the BBC.

And he fails to grasp why the UK - the country that took him in as an asylum seeker - is sending those in need of support to a place with a noted poor human rights record,"I think it's a bizarre policy. I know how scary it can be when you are really fleeing somewhere and hoping to get some sort of refuge in a country that you've selected."

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