{"id":12535,"date":"2019-05-01T15:41:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T15:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=12535"},"modified":"2019-05-01T15:41:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T15:41:08","slug":"cnl-party-urges-release-of-arbitrarily-imprisoned-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/cnl-party-urges-release-of-arbitrarily-imprisoned-members\/","title":{"rendered":"CNL party urges release of arbitrarily imprisoned members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The leader of the National Congress for Liberty-CNL feels deep dismay over a wave of arbitrary arrests and imprisonment, threats of death, intimidation and violence of all kinds against our members and supporters across the country,&#8221; said T\u00e9rence Manirambona, CNL Communication Officer in a press conference held on 30 April.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12531\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12531\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-12531\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Terence-Manirambona.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Terence-Manirambona.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Terence-Manirambona-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Terence-Manirambona-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Terence-Manirambona-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">T\u00e9rence Manirambona, CNL Communication Officer<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He indicates that this political intolerance is sharply observed in the provinces of Kirundo, Muyinga, Rumonge, Gitega, Ngozi, Karuzi, Rutana, Bujumbura, Bubanza and Cibitoke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCNL members are wrongly accused of holding illegal meetings even if they are two or three on the street or in a family house,&#8221; says Manirambona.<\/p>\n<p>He accuses members of the ruling CNDD-FDD youth wing, local authorities and security forces of committing these crimes adding that even members of other political parties of the opposition suffer the same fate.<\/p>\n<p>He says he is concerned about inflammatory remarks made by some administrative and police officials who allegedly have a likely harassment plan for political opponents.<br \/>\nHe calls on the government to release all the people who are illegally detained for political motives and false accusations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The leader of the National Congress for Liberty-CNL feels deep dismay over a wave of arbitrary arrests and imprisonment, threats of death, intimidation and violence of all kinds against our members and supporters across the country,&#8221; said T\u00e9rence Manirambona, CNL Communication Officer in a press conference held on 30 April. He indicates that this political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":12531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,670],"tags":[924,108],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12535"}],"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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12535"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12538,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12535\/revisions\/12538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}