Key Developments: June 2014 - May 2015

- As a result of the government’s commitment to ICT development, the Alliance for Affordable Internet listed Rwanda as the top-ranked developing country in its 2014 Affordability Index (see Availability and Ease of Access).

- Three BBC websites were blocked in October 2014 in response to the BBC’s broadcast of the controversial documentary, “Rwanda, The Untold Story” (see Blocking and Filtering).

- Popular singer Kizito Mihigo was sentenced to 10 years in prison in February 2015 after he was found guilty of conspiring to overthrow the government in a trial that used his private WhatsApp and Skype messages to alleged opposition critics in exile against him as evidence (see Surveillance, Privacy, and Anonymity).