{"id":14301,"date":"2019-10-30T06:22:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T06:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=14301"},"modified":"2019-11-06T06:57:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T06:57:32","slug":"trial-verdict-on-four-journalists-detained-in-bubanza-to-be-rendered-within-48hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/trial-verdict-on-four-journalists-detained-in-bubanza-to-be-rendered-within-48hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Trial verdict on four journalists detained in Bubanza to be rendered within 48hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four journalists working for Iwacu Press Group namely Christine Kamikazi, Agn\u00e8s Ndirubusa, T\u00e9rence Mpozenzi, Egide Harerimana and their driver Adolphe Masabarakiza detained in Bubanza since 22 October for &#8220;complicity in undermining the internal state security\u201d appeared on 29 October in front of the judge\u2019s council chamber that will announce the verdict within 48h.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14300\" style=\"width: 515px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14300\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-14300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Tribunal-de-grande-instance-de-Bubanza.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"505\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Tribunal-de-grande-instance-de-Bubanza.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Tribunal-de-grande-instance-de-Bubanza-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Tribunal-de-grande-instance-de-Bubanza-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Tribunal-de-grande-instance-de-Bubanza-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14300\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bubanza High Court office<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cl\u00e9ment Retirakiza, their lawyer hopes that his clients will be released. &#8220;The judge heard our clients, they gave them time to express themselves on the accusations of the government prosecutor,&#8221; says the lawyer who appreciates that the judge has allowed lawyers to defend legally and judicially our colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope they will be released. The law is clear with respect to the charges of the government against them and the evidence that our clients have provided, &#8220;he says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iwacu.global.ssl.fastly.net\/englishnews\/burundi-media-iwacu-journalists-kept-in-police-custody-in-bubanza\/\">These four journalists were arrested in Bubanza province<\/a> when they were going to cover the clashes that erupted between the armed groups and security forces in Musigati commune, of Buabanza province in the west of Burundi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four journalists working for Iwacu Press Group namely Christine Kamikazi, Agn\u00e8s Ndirubusa, T\u00e9rence Mpozenzi, Egide Harerimana and their driver Adolphe Masabarakiza detained in Bubanza since 22 October for &#8220;complicity in undermining the internal state security\u201d appeared on 29 October in front of the judge\u2019s council chamber that will announce the verdict within 48h. Cl\u00e9ment Retirakiza, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":14300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,670],"tags":[924,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14301"}],"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=14301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14307,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14301\/revisions\/14307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}