{"id":14480,"date":"2019-11-20T06:54:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T06:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=14480"},"modified":"2019-11-20T14:22:04","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T14:22:04","slug":"burundi-government-threatens-media-with-zero-tolerance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/burundi-government-threatens-media-with-zero-tolerance\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi government threatens media with zero tolerance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Isidore Ntirampeba, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said the Burundian government won\u2019t tolerate any media that wants to abuse the press freedom to undermine public security. \u201cThis is clear, we don\u2019t gamble with security and there will be no tolerance\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14484\" style=\"width: 538px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14484\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-14484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Diplomate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Diplomate.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Diplomate-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Diplomate-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Diplomate-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14484\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diplomatic and Consular corps present in the meeting<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It was in a briefing session for heads of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives of accredited NGOs in Bujumbura city, this November 19.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ntirampeba, indeed, said freedom doesn\u2019t mean freedom abuse. \u201cNo one is supposed to ignore the law and equally no one is spared in case of law infringement,\u201d he said adding that journalists are like any citizen. He also said if journalists are before the court in violation of the law, this shouldn\u2019t be a pressure for discussion. &#8220;Justice is independent and does its job regardless of who you are,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that the government through the National Media Regulator-CNC continues to sensitize journalists during this pre-election period. \u201cCNC has put in place a code of conduct for the 2020 elections that any media, signatory or not, must follow\u201d, he said adding that out of 43 media, 42 already signed it on October 17.<\/p>\n<p>The permanent secretary has also reminded the international community that it has no reason to be hostile to the development and choice of Burundians towards peace and sustainable development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isidore Ntirampeba, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said the Burundian government won\u2019t tolerate any media that wants to abuse the press freedom to undermine public security. \u201cThis is clear, we don\u2019t gamble with security and there will be no tolerance\u201d, he said. It was in a briefing session for heads of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,670],"tags":[1177,108],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14480"}],"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=14480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14486,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14480\/revisions\/14486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}