{"id":14679,"date":"2019-12-13T07:11:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T07:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=14679"},"modified":"2019-12-13T07:11:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T07:11:05","slug":"two-influential-members-of-cnl-party-arrested-in-kanyosha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/two-influential-members-of-cnl-party-arrested-in-kanyosha\/","title":{"rendered":"Two influential members of CNL party arrested in Kanyosha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Remy Havyarimana, Secretary of the opposition party National Congress for Liberty-CNL in Kanyosha area was arrested in the evening of 11 December and Gaspard Nzobakenga, the propagandist of the same party in Kinzingwe-Bihara neighborhood got arrested in the morning of 12 December. The reasons for their arrest are still unknown.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14680\" style=\"width: 518px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14680\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-14680\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/R\u00e9my.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"508\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/R\u00e9my.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/R\u00e9my-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/R\u00e9my-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/R\u00e9my-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14680\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Remy Havyarimana, CNL secretary in Kanyosha area<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Remy Havyarimana was arrested around 7:00 pm when he left home to the shop,&#8221; says one of his relatives. He wonders why he was arrested in the night and without an arrest warrant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is victim of his political affiliation. Those who arrested him did not present the arrest warrant and did not say what he was accused of,&#8221; he continues.<\/p>\n<p>The same source says that Mr Havyarimana was arrested by the head of the National Intelligence Service (SNR) in Bujumbura City alongside three members of the ruling party CNDD-FDD youth wing. \u201cHe would be detained in the Intelligence Service prison,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n<p>Gaspard Nzobakenga, whose responsibility is spreading CNL party propaganda in Kizingwe-Bihara neighborhood in Kanyosha area was also arrested in the morning of 12 December.<\/p>\n<p>Sources on the spot say the two members of the opposition party CNL would be prosecuted for the alleged fraudulent issuance of identity cards. &#8220;Rumors have been spread over the past few days that Havyarimana and Nzobakenga would be involved in illegal issuance of identity cards to young people,&#8221; they say.<\/p>\n<p>R\u00e9gis Ahishakiye, the representative of members of CNL party youth league, denounces arbitrary arrests aimed at intimidating CNL party leaders. &#8220;They were arrested by members of CNDD-FDD party youth wing who are neither administrative, security nor judicial authorities,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>He calls on Burundian authorities to treat members of different political parties equitably. &#8220;Human rights must be sufficiently respected. No one should be a victim of his political, religious or ethnic affiliation, &#8220;he says.<\/p>\n<p>Contacted, Claude Niragira, chief of Kizingwe-Bihara neighborhood says he is not aware of the arrests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remy Havyarimana, Secretary of the opposition party National Congress for Liberty-CNL in Kanyosha area was arrested in the evening of 11 December and Gaspard Nzobakenga, the propagandist of the same party in Kinzingwe-Bihara neighborhood got arrested in the morning of 12 December. The reasons for their arrest are still unknown. &#8220;Remy Havyarimana was arrested around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":14680,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[108,749],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14679"}],"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=14679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14681,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14679\/revisions\/14681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}