{"id":15664,"date":"2020-04-08T08:41:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T08:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=15664"},"modified":"2020-04-08T08:41:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T08:41:15","slug":"cnl-party-denounces-members-persecution-in-bujumbura-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/cnl-party-denounces-members-persecution-in-bujumbura-province\/","title":{"rendered":"CNL party denounces members\u2019 persecution in Bujumbura province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thierry Ndayishimiye, Secretary of CNL party in Bujumbura province says the cases of political intolerance often occur these days in Bujumbura province. \u201cJuvenal Hicuburundi, CNL party secretary in Kanyosha locality was about to be arrested for false possession of weapons near his home this April 6,\u201d says Ndayishimiye. He says the incident happened when the police carried out a search in the locality and reported that they discovered hidden weapons near his home.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13263\" style=\"width: 408px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13263\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-13263\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/cnl-mutimbuzi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/cnl-mutimbuzi.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/cnl-mutimbuzi-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/cnl-mutimbuzi-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/cnl-mutimbuzi-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13263\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Six CNL party members detained in Mutimbuzi commune since April 6<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cLocal residents intervened and denounced these false allegations and the police tried to arrest his spouse in vain,\u201d he says adding that Juvenal Hicuburundi has already fled the locality. \u201cWhen he heard that he is accused of illegal possession of weapons, he decided to flee instead of appearing in the police court for investigation,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Thierry Ndayishimiye also adds that six party members from Mutimbuzi commune are detained in Gatumba police dungeon since 6 April. He says they have been arrested over the misunderstandings that occurred between CNL party members and the Imbonerakure youths during the inaugural ceremonies of the CNL party office in Buterere neighborhood on April 4. \u201cSome of our party members from Mutimbuzi commune were prevented from attending those ceremonies,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Ndayishimiye calls on the administrative officials to intervene so that those cases of political intolerance cease and people live in harmony. \u201cThe police should also equally protect all party members,\u201d he says. Iwacu has tried to contact Nadine Gacuti, Governor of Bujumbura province but to no avail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thierry Ndayishimiye, Secretary of CNL party in Bujumbura province says the cases of political intolerance often occur these days in Bujumbura province. \u201cJuvenal Hicuburundi, CNL party secretary in Kanyosha locality was about to be arrested for false possession of weapons near his home this April 6,\u201d says Ndayishimiye. He says the incident happened when the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15664"}],"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=15664"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15672,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15664\/revisions\/15672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}