{"id":3851,"date":"2016-09-21T12:57:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T12:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=3851"},"modified":"2016-09-21T13:12:35","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T13:12:35","slug":"extension-of-restrictive-measures-against-four-burundians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/extension-of-restrictive-measures-against-four-burundians\/","title":{"rendered":"Extension of restrictive measures against four Burundians"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3852\" style=\"width: 229px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3852\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-3852\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Godefroid-Bizimana-269x300.jpg\" alt=\"Godefroid Bizimana, Deputy Director General of Police one of the four people targeted by EU sanctions\" width=\"219\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Godefroid-Bizimana-269x300.jpg 269w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Godefroid-Bizimana-600x669.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Godefroid-Bizimana.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3852\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Godefroid Bizimana, Deputy Director General of Police one of the four people targeted by EU sanctions<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This Tuesday, 20 September 2016, the European Council renewed until 31 October 2017 restrictive measures against four people \u201cwhose activities were seen as undermining democracy or hampering the search for a political solution to the crisis that has rocked Burundi since the past few months. Their activities include acts of violence, repression and incitement to violence, as well as acts constituting serious violations of human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those Burundians are Godefroid Bizimana, Deputy Director General of the National Police (PNB), Gervais Ndirakobuca nicknamed Ndakugarika, chief of staff for President in charge of issues related to the national police, Mathias Joseph Niyonzima also known as\u00a0 Kazungu, agent of the National Intelligence Agency ( SNR) and Leonard\u00a0 Ngendakumana, former &#8221; missions manager at the presidential office &#8221; currently in exile.<\/p>\n<p>Those measures include banning them from entering the territory of the European Union and the freezing of their assets. \u201cThe European Council considered that the lack of progress in connection with the four people subject to the above mentioned restrictive measures justified the extension of sanctions.\u201d<br \/>\nThese measures were adopted on 1 October 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Tuesday, 20 September 2016, the European Council renewed until 31 October 2017 restrictive measures against four people \u201cwhose activities were seen as undermining democracy or hampering the search for a political solution to the crisis that has rocked Burundi since the past few months. Their activities include acts of violence, repression and incitement to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,670],"tags":[113,791],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851"}],"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=3851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3854,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851\/revisions\/3854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}