{"id":1197,"date":"2014-04-08T11:14:28","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T10:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/blogs\/english\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2014-04-08T11:14:28","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T10:14:28","slug":"children-are-never-crime-perpetrators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/children-are-never-crime-perpetrators\/","title":{"rendered":"Children are never crime perpetrators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Among prisoners of MSD Movement for Solidarity and Democracy, there are two under eighteen children who have been sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment. The Spokesman of \u201cSOJEPAE\u201d, Youth Solidarity for Peace and Childhood indicates that children should be treated in a particular way.<\/strong><em>-By Lorraine Josiane Manishatse<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1198\" style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/David-Ninganza.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1198\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1198 \" alt=\"David Ninganza, the Spokesman of \u201cSOJEPAE\u201d, Youth Solidarity for Peace and Childhood.\u00a9Iwacu\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/David-Ninganza.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/David-Ninganza.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/David-Ninganza-300x254.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1198\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Ninganza, the Spokesman of \u201cSOJEPAE\u201d, Youth Solidarity for Peace and Childhood.\u00a9Iwacu<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em><\/em>For David Ninganza, children who are under 18 have been questioned with adults whereas children should be handled accordingly. Children\u2019s rights have been violated when the policemen have made several arrests of MSD members, both adults and children. People have been apprehended and detained in mass without the age distinction. \u201cChildren are never perpetrators, adults prepare crimes while children are simply following them,\u201d he explains. Ninganza condemns the police: \u201cchildren should be accompanied with their lawyers. It is strictly forbidden that an under-18 person be examined or questioned about a matter that commits his life without being accompanied by his parents or his lawyer or lawyers,\u201d he highlights.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Court decision is dismissed by a Court of Appeal decision<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The spokesman of SOJEPAE asks lawyers who plead for those children to appeal. He also demands the tribunal and the Court of Appeal to take into consideration the age of the accused and their living conditions in prison. \u201cAll detention centers in Burundi do not fulfill norms of children accommodation,\u201d he regrets. He adds that they are accustomed that public hearings are often late; he insists that this children\u2019s matter be a priority. He requests the Government to create a special Court of Justice for children under 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among prisoners of MSD Movement for Solidarity and Democracy, there are two under eighteen children who have been sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment. The Spokesman of \u201cSOJEPAE\u201d, Youth Solidarity for Peace and Childhood indicates that children should be treated in a particular way.-By Lorraine Josiane Manishatse For David Ninganza, children who are under 18 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[178,570],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}