In addition to targeting opposition activists, the security forces have arrested civil society workers and journalists. Two journalists from Iwacu, a local newspaper, were detained for 48 hours in early November without charge, and Jean-Claude Kavumbagu, who edits an often-controversial, broadly pro-Tutsi news agency called Net Press, went on trial for treason on November 9th. Mr Kavumbagu's crime was to write, in mid-July, of his concerns about whether Burundi was sufficiently prepared for an attack by Al-Shabaab, a Somalia-based Islamic militia, following the co-ordinated attacks that took place in Kampala, Uganda, on July 11th, in retaliation for the country's troop deployment in Somalia (November 2010, The political scene). Mr Kavumbagu, who has been arrested and detained four times before this instance, has been held in a pre-trial limbo since his arrest on July 17th. He went to trial on July 30th, but the court retroactively declared itself incompetent to hear the case amidst the mysterious transfer of one of its judges to another court, and he remained illegally detained, according to HRW, until his trial began in early November. Although the state's case appears somewhat flimsy-Mr Kavumbagu's lawyer has argued that he cannot have committed treason since Burundi is not at war-the judge is likely to face considerable pressure from the government to rule against the defendant.