{"id":16210,"date":"2020-05-28T07:42:49","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T07:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=16210"},"modified":"2020-05-28T07:42:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T07:42:49","slug":"over-420-cnl-party-members-detained-in-electoral-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/over-420-cnl-party-members-detained-in-electoral-period\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 420 CNL party members detained in electoral period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>T\u00e9rence Manirambona, Spokesperson for the National Congress for Liberty-CNL says at least 423 party members including party observers are detained in different localities of the country. \u201cOver 600 party members were arrested in the last days of the electoral campaign and on the Election Day. Some were freed but 423 members are still detained,\u201d he says adding that they continue to be arrested even after the release of the provisional results of the general elections.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16213\" style=\"width: 569px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16213\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-16213\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Prisonniers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Prisonniers.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Prisonniers-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Prisonniers-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Prisonniers-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16213\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CNL party pleads for the release of its members<\/p><\/div>\n<p>T\u00e9rence Manirambona says they are arrested for political motives. \u201cThey are accused of unfounded motives. They don\u2019t have the right to a fair trial. How a person should be accused of boycotting the election or wearing a piece of cloth marked number 23? \u201d he wonders. T\u00e9rence Manirambona, however, says CNL party will never use force to claim its rights. \u201cWe follow the existing legal procedures and we expect to lodge our complaints to the Constitutional Court,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>CNL Spokesperson calls on the competent authorities to release their members. \u201cIt would be better if all people felt free to perform their daily activities. Unfortunately, our party members continue to be arrested, persecuted and intimidated,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Some CNL party members are officially accused of attempting to disrupt security during the electoral period. On May 25, <a href=\"https:\/\/iwacu.global.ssl.fastly.net\/englishnews\/six-cnl-party-observers-from-ngozi-sentenced-to-one-year-in-prison\/\">Six CNL party members in Ngozi province have been sentenced to one year imprisonment due to \u201cforged documents\u201d<\/a>. .<\/p>\n<p>On May 20, Pierre Nkurikiye, Spokesperson for the Ministry of Public Security said CNL party members arrested on the<a href=\"https:\/\/iwacu.global.ssl.fastly.net\/englishnews\/six-cnl-party-observers-from-ngozi-sentenced-to-one-year-in-prison\/\"> Election Day were generally accused of trying to rig the elections by using forged accreditations for political proxies and influencing voters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/iwacu.global.ssl.fastly.net\/englishnews\/elections-marred-by-irregularities\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T\u00e9rence Manirambona, Spokesperson for the National Congress for Liberty-CNL says at least 423 party members including party observers are detained in different localities of the country. \u201cOver 600 party members were arrested in the last days of the electoral campaign and on the Election Day. Some were freed but 423 members are still detained,\u201d he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16213,"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\/16210"}],"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=16210"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16215,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16210\/revisions\/16215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}