{"id":14775,"date":"2019-12-27T07:17:37","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T07:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=14775"},"modified":"2019-12-27T07:17:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T07:17:37","slug":"burundi-president-urges-iwacu-news-reporters-to-look-for-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/burundi-president-urges-iwacu-news-reporters-to-look-for-lawyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi President urges Iwacu news reporters to look for lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the public conference that was held in Gitega Province this December 26, Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza has said the four Iwacu reporters detained in Bubanza Province since October 22, have the right to look for lawyers to defend them.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14776\" style=\"width: 527px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14776\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-14776\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/NKURUNZIZA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"517\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/NKURUNZIZA.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/NKURUNZIZA-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/NKURUNZIZA-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/NKURUNZIZA-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 517px) 100vw, 517px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14776\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Pierre Nkurunziza: \u201cThe four Iwacu journalists have the right to defend themselves and shed light on the charges brought against them\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThere are reasons behind their arrest. Juridical officials are there to listen to them. They have the right to defend themselves and shed light on the charges brought against them\u201d, said President Nkurunziza adding that he cannot interfere in an ongoing trail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president intervenes only when there is no more possibility of making any appeal. I urge juridical officials to do whatever it takes so that their trial should be ended very soon. If they agree with the verdict, it will be good. Otherwise, they will make an appeal\u201d, said President Pierre Nkurunziza.<\/p>\n<p>Agn\u00e8s Ndirubusa, Christine Kamikazi, Egide Harerimana and T\u00e9rence Mpozenzi were arrested on Tuesday October 22nd, in Musigati Commune of Bubanza western Province when they were trying to get information on heavy gunfire that was heard at the dawn of October 22. They are accused of complicity in undermining the internal state security\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the public conference that was held in Gitega Province this December 26, Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza has said the four Iwacu reporters detained in Bubanza Province since October 22, have the right to look for lawyers to defend them. \u201cThere are reasons behind their arrest. Juridical officials are there to listen to them. They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[924,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14775"}],"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=14775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14777,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14775\/revisions\/14777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}