{"id":4698,"date":"2017-01-03T11:55:10","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T11:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=4698"},"modified":"2017-01-03T16:43:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T16:43:03","slug":"ligue-iteka-banned-from-working-in-burundi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/ligue-iteka-banned-from-working-in-burundi\/","title":{"rendered":"Ligue Iteka banned from working in Burundi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4700\" style=\"width: 405px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4700\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-4700\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Ligue-Iteka-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cLigue Iteka\u201d organization\u2019s headquarters in the capital Bujumbura\" width=\"395\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Ligue-Iteka-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Ligue-Iteka.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 395px) 100vw, 395px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4700\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cLigue Iteka\u201d organization\u2019s headquarters in the capital Bujumbura<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Human Rights association-Ligue Iteka is no longer allowed to work in Burundi from 21 December. Pascal Barandagiye, Interior Minister, says the association has not ceased its actions to tarnish the image of Burundi since its temporary suspension on 24 October 2016. \u201cLigue-Iteka is recalcitrant and sows hatred and division within the Burundian community\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister says the Commission of Inquiry on the insurrectionary movement has ordered a complete ban of the \u201cLigue Iteka\u201d association among the civil society organizations working on the Burundian territory.<\/p>\n<p>Anshaire Nikoyagize, Chairman of the Human Rights association \u2013 Ligue Iteka, says the ministerial ordinance will not change anything about the associations\u2019 activities. \u201cThis suspension will not in any way hamper the attainment of the association\u2019s goals. We will keep informing the national and international community even if the threats against us continue to increase\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n<p>Beside Ligue Iteka, there are five other civil society organizations completely suspended and four others which were provisionally suspended on 24 October by the interior ministry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLigue Iteka\u201d, in conjunction with the International Federation for Human Rights-FIDH, published a report on 15 November about \u201cRepression and genocidal dynamics in Burundi\u201d. Burundi government refuted the allegations it contained.<\/p>\n<p>The 200\u2013page report identified the crimes committed in Burundi since April 2015 and reported a death toll reaching 1,000 people, the detention of 8,000 people for political motives, the disappearance of between 300 and 800 people, the ill-treatment of hundreds of people, sexual abuse of several women and girls, thousands of cases of arbitrary arrests and the flight of about 300,000 refugees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Human Rights association-Ligue Iteka is no longer allowed to work in Burundi from 21 December. Pascal Barandagiye, Interior Minister, says the association has not ceased its actions to tarnish the image of Burundi since its temporary suspension on 24 October 2016. \u201cLigue-Iteka is recalcitrant and sows hatred and division within the Burundian community\u201d, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,670],"tags":[875,939],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698"}],"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=4698"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4702,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698\/revisions\/4702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}