{"id":3272,"date":"2016-07-25T12:47:29","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T12:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=3272"},"modified":"2016-08-22T11:20:12","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T11:20:12","slug":"alert-jean-bigirimana-iwacu-journalist-arrested-and-detained-in-an-unknown-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/alert-jean-bigirimana-iwacu-journalist-arrested-and-detained-in-an-unknown-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Alert &#8211; Jean Bigirimana, Iwacu journalist arrested and detained in an unknown place"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3273\" style=\"width: 218px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3273\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-3273\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Jean-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jean Bigirimana\" width=\"208\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Jean-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Jean.jpg 672w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Jean-600x914.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3273\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jean Bigirimana<\/p><\/div>\n<p>According to reliable sources, this former journalist of Rema FM radio recently recruited by the Iwacu Press Group was arrested in the afternoon this Friday, 22 July by the agents that would be of the National Intelligence Service- SNR.<\/p>\n<p>This is an anonymous call from a \u201cfriend of the journalist\u201d who reported that Jean Bigirimana was arrested in Bugarama locality in Muramvya Commune of Muramvya Province. The SNR agents took him to Muramvya Province headquarters. However, the police operating in Muramvya say they ignore the arrest.<\/p>\n<p>He was allegedly accused of having shuttled between Burundi and Rwanda and of having even written a story on the life of exiled journalists in a country in diplomatic disagreement with Bujumbura.<\/p>\n<p>Burundi Press Observatory- OPB condemns the arrest of this journalist and his detention in an unknown place up to now. According to L\u00e9andre Sikuyavuga, both the deputy chairman of OPB and chief editor of \u201cIwacu Newspaper\u201d, such an act is deplorable.<\/p>\n<p>The family members of this journalist feel deeply concerned about his missing. So far, they haven\u2019t got any information about his detention place and the reasons behind his apprehension.<br \/>\nThe National Media Council- CNC is already alerted to the arrest of this Iwacu Press Group journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to reliable sources, this former journalist of Rema FM radio recently recruited by the Iwacu Press Group was arrested in the afternoon this Friday, 22 July by the agents that would be of the National Intelligence Service- SNR. This is an anonymous call from a \u201cfriend of the journalist\u201d who reported that Jean Bigirimana [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[744],"tags":[108,696],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272"}],"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=3272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12620,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272\/revisions\/12620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}