{"id":12597,"date":"2019-05-08T07:45:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T07:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=12597"},"modified":"2019-05-15T09:04:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T09:04:59","slug":"national-broadcast-reporter-imprisoned-for-three-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/national-broadcast-reporter-imprisoned-for-three-days\/","title":{"rendered":"National broadcast reporter imprisoned for three days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jean Claude Nshimirimana, a journalist of the national radio (RTNB), remains incarcerated since Sunday, May 5, in the police cell of Kabezi commune in Bujumbura province.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12596\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12596\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-12596\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Claude-RTNB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"548\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Claude-RTNB.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Claude-RTNB-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Claude-RTNB-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Claude-RTNB-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12596\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jean Claude Nshimirimana<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The police arrested him accusing him of holding an illegal and clandestine meeting. Mr Nshimirimana was supposed to appear before the Bujumbura public prosecutor this Tuesday, May 7.<br \/>\n&#8220;He could not appear,&#8221; said sources on the spot indicating that the prosecutor was traveling to Gitega province.<\/p>\n<p>Juma L\u00e9onard Nduwayo, director of the national radio, says he does not know the motives behind the arrest of his employee. &#8220;We cannot do anything about the case as it is under investigation now,&#8221; he says, adding that he has forwarded the issue to his superiors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean Claude Nshimirimana, a journalist of the national radio (RTNB), remains incarcerated since Sunday, May 5, in the police cell of Kabezi commune in Bujumbura province. The police arrested him accusing him of holding an illegal and clandestine meeting. Mr Nshimirimana was supposed to appear before the Bujumbura public prosecutor this Tuesday, May 7. &#8220;He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":12596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,670],"tags":[108,740],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12597"}],"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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12602,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12597\/revisions\/12602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}