{"id":4236,"date":"2016-11-08T07:57:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T07:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=4236"},"modified":"2016-11-08T07:57:29","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T07:57:29","slug":"arrested-for-speaking-to-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/arrested-for-speaking-to-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrested for speaking to journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Salvator Nyandwi, the chairman of the association of gravediggers &#8221;Dufashanye&#8221;, was arrested in the afternoon of 5 November. He is detained in Gihamga police Brigade custody in Bubanza Province in the West of Burundi. He is accused of speaking to a journalist.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4237\" style=\"width: 441px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4237\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-4237\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Une-des-tombes-profan\u00e9es-1024x683-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"One of the graves destroyed in Mpanda cemetery \" width=\"431\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Une-des-tombes-profan\u00e9es-1024x683-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Une-des-tombes-profan\u00e9es-1024x683-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Une-des-tombes-profan\u00e9es-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Une-des-tombes-profan\u00e9es-1024x683-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the graves destroyed in Mpanda cemetery<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The association gathers gravediggers who work in Mpanda cemetery. In the morning of 5 November, Salvator Nyandwi was responding to Iwacu Press Group reporter, who was investigating the destruction of some graves in Mpanda cemetery when he received a call from the chief of Buringa area. &#8220;He asked me the reason why I was speaking to a journalist without his permission,&#8221; he said. The same administrative authority of the area wondered why a reporter dares to enter his sector without asking him permission. Information provided by the gravediggers says a hundred of graves had already been destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>Most of them are soldiers and police officers\u2018. The gravediggers are very much concerned after finding that the majority of suspected authors of these destructive acts have been released.<\/p>\n<p>L\u00e9opold Ndayisaba, the administrator of Gihanga Commune states that the arrest of the chairman of the Association &#8220;Dufashanye&#8221; is not related to the interview he granted to the Iwacu journalist. &#8220;His arrest is rather due to a systematic theft of construction materials in the Mpanda cemetery.&#8221; He ensures that there is no particular problem in this cemetery and points out that there are just thieves who are stealing metal sheets used to construct the graves&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Ndayisaba refutes the accusations of those who say that the suspects of this theft were released. &#8220;One person is still behind bars. Only two have been released,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salvator Nyandwi, the chairman of the association of gravediggers &#8221;Dufashanye&#8221;, was arrested in the afternoon of 5 November. He is detained in Gihamga police Brigade custody in Bubanza Province in the West of Burundi. He is accused of speaking to a journalist. The association gathers gravediggers who work in Mpanda cemetery. 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