BURUNDIAN Communications Minister Albert Mbonerane suspended on Monday the right of the private news agency Net Press to publish or post news on its Website. “This measure has been taken to ensure that the media law is respected,” he said. “For some time now, we have noted that Net Press editors and management have not been respecting the media law of March 1997, which stipulates that the media should avoid publishing information that is subversive, defamatory, abusive, false or even lies that are published with the sole aim of disturbing the prevailing situation in the country,” he added. The country’s public prosecutor submitted the Net Press file to Mbonerane for scrutiny, he said, “so that urgent and fitting measures are taken to protect the media law and public order”.