Journalist charged after 'exposing' judiciary in Italian nuns' murder

A journalist in Burundi has been arrested and charged with complicity in the killing of three Italian nuns last September, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Bob Rugurika, director of African Public Radio, had recently started broadcasting interviews with those he claimed were witnesses and participants in the murder of the nuns, who were found dead - two of them raped and partially decapitated - north of the capital, Bujumbura.

Immediately after the killings, authorities detained a suspect who was allegedly holding the murder weapon and made a full confession upon arrest.

Prosecutors in Burundi said on Tuesday that Rugurika was "endangering the secrecy of judicial investigation" by broadcasting the interviews.

The people interviewed on the radio station allege that senior police officers and the former head of the country's intelligence service were involved in the nuns' assassinations.