{"id":13306,"date":"2019-07-30T06:49:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T06:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=13306"},"modified":"2019-07-31T06:43:09","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T06:43:09","slug":"administrative-court-hears-anew-case-between-bonesha-fm-radio-and-cnc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/administrative-court-hears-anew-case-between-bonesha-fm-radio-and-cnc\/","title":{"rendered":"Administrative Court hears anew case between Bonesha FM radio and CNC"},"content":{"rendered":"

On July 29th, Bujumbura Administrative Court has held again a public hearing of a trial opposing Bonesha FM radio and Burundi Media Regulator-CNC.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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L\u00e9on Masengo says CNC is distracting the court by putting forward the idea of deadlines<\/p><\/div>\n

In its decision of 23 July 2019, the Administrative Court of Bujumbura decided to reopen hearings on the case opposing Bonesha FM radio and CNC. The last hearings were held on June 24th and the case was adjourned for further deliberation. The court\u2019s decision announced that \u201cthe reopening of the hearings was mandatory\u201d as one member of the jury no longer works in the same court.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been surprised to be summoned again for a new public hearing whereas the case had already been adjourned for deliberation,\u201d says L\u00e9on Masengo, Director of Bonesha FM radio.
\nIt was an opportunity to ask the court to review our case carefully, he adds.
\nAt the hearing, Mr. Masengo said Bonesha officials want the court to understand the reason why they have brought the case to court.<\/p>\n

CNC lawyer has said Bonesha radio appealed against CNC decision after the legal deadline.
\n\u201cCNC is distracting the court by putting forward the idea of deadlines,\u201d he told journalists adding that Bonesha officials met the legal deadline to appeal against the decision of CNC.
\nMr. Masengo says it has been almost a year since they took the case to the Administrative Court. However, \u201cwe believe that we will soon regain our full rights,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n

Bonesha FM radio appealed against CNC decision on March 10, 2018. The decision they protested against was taken during the General Assembly of CNC held from 22 to 23 February 2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mr. Masengo says the decision they appealed against concerns the refusal to grant Bonesha FM radio the authorization to operate again in the country. \u201cOur file was in accordance with the press law,\u201d he says adding that CNC asked them to present the certificate of non-prosecution which is not required anywhere to set up a radio station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On July 29th, Bujumbura Administrative Court has held again a public hearing of a trial opposing Bonesha FM radio and Burundi Media Regulator-CNC. In its decision of 23 July 2019, the Administrative Court of Bujumbura decided to reopen hearings on the case opposing Bonesha FM radio and CNC. The last hearings were held on June […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,670],"tags":[709,108],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13306"}],"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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13307,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13306\/revisions\/13307"}],"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=13306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}