{"id":12733,"date":"2019-05-28T07:11:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T07:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=12733"},"modified":"2019-05-28T07:11:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T07:11:23","slug":"administrative-court-adjourns-trial-between-bonesha-fm-radio-and-cnc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/administrative-court-adjourns-trial-between-bonesha-fm-radio-and-cnc\/","title":{"rendered":"Administrative Court adjourns trial between Bonesha FM radio and CNC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Administrative Court of Bujumbura has adjourned for June 24 the public hearing of the trial opposing the Radio Without Borders \u2018Bonesha FM\u2019 and Burundi Media Regulator-CNC that was scheduled for 27 May 2019.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12734\" style=\"width: 549px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12734\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-12734\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/L\u00e9o-MASENGO.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"539\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/L\u00e9o-MASENGO.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/L\u00e9o-MASENGO-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/L\u00e9o-MASENGO-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/L\u00e9o-MASENGO-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12734\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">L\u00e9on Masengo, Director of Bonesha FM: \u201cThe certificate of non-prosecution is not mentioned anywhere among the documents required to apply for authorization to set up a radio station\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>CNC defense lawyer has not brought the complete file about the trial. &#8220;We note that CNC did not communicate with its defense lawyer as he was not well equipped for this trial,&#8221; says L\u00e9on Masengo, Director of Bonesha FM radio.<\/p>\n<p>The officials of Bonesha FM had asked CNC the permission to operate again in Burundi after the destruction of this radio station on May 14, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Radio Isanganiro, Radio Publique Africaine (RPA), Rema FM and Radio-T\u00e9l\u00e9vision Renaissance were also destroyed by unidentified individuals after an attempted coup of 13 May 2015.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued on February 23, 2018, CNC said the file submitted by Bonesha FM complied with the Burundian press law but the latter had to submit the certificate of non-prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Surprisingly, CNC demanded us to present the certificate of non-prosecution which is not mentioned anywhere among the documents required to be authorized to set up a radio station,\u201d says Masengo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Administrative Court of Bujumbura has adjourned for June 24 the public hearing of the trial opposing the Radio Without Borders \u2018Bonesha FM\u2019 and Burundi Media Regulator-CNC that was scheduled for 27 May 2019. CNC defense lawyer has not brought the complete file about the trial. &#8220;We note that CNC did not communicate with its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":12734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[709,108],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12733"}],"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=12733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12735,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12733\/revisions\/12735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}