{"id":14377,"date":"2019-11-07T06:47:06","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T06:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=14377"},"modified":"2019-11-07T06:47:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T06:47:06","slug":"cnc-is-not-yet-informed-about-iwacu-journalists-detention-says-cnc-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/cnc-is-not-yet-informed-about-iwacu-journalists-detention-says-cnc-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cCNC is not yet informed about Iwacu journalists\u2019 detention,\u201d says CNC Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nestor Bankumukunzi, Chairman of the National Media Regulatory Authority has said the CNC is not yet informed about the detention of the four Iwacu news reporters and their driver. \u201cThe Media Regulatory Authority is not aware of the motives behind their detention,\u201d he said adding that if the four news reporters and their driver were arrested for their daily activities, the judicial officials should respect the law. Otherwise, he said, they should be punished like other citizens if they were arrested for other offenses.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14367\" style=\"width: 529px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14367\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-14367\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/les-journalistes-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"519\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/les-journalistes-1-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/les-journalistes-1-1-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/les-journalistes-1-1-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/les-journalistes-1-1-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14367\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iwacu news reporters detained in Bubanza prison<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Diane Ndonse, Chairperson for the Association of women journalists-AFJO deplored the detention of two women journalists with their colleagues of Iwacu Press Group in Bubanza prison. \u201cJudicial officials should accelerate their investigations to release them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Agn\u00e8s Ndirubusa, Christine Kamikazi, T\u00e9rence Mpozenzi, Egide Harerimana and their driver Adolphe Masabarakiza, were arrested in Musigati commune on October 22. They are on the 16th day of the detention. On November 4, the lawyers of the four Iwacu news reporters have appealed to Ntahangwa Appeal Court in Bujumbura City. They were accused of \u201ccomplicity in undermining the state internal security\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nestor Bankumukunzi, Chairman of the National Media Regulatory Authority has said the CNC is not yet informed about the detention of the four Iwacu news reporters and their driver. \u201cThe Media Regulatory Authority is not aware of the motives behind their detention,\u201d he said adding that if the four news reporters and their driver were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[874,924],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14377"}],"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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14379,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14377\/revisions\/14379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}