{"id":24257,"date":"2016-03-30T11:20:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T11:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/bihozagara-former-rwandan-diplomat-dies-in\/"},"modified":"2016-04-01T05:51:39","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T05:51:39","slug":"bihozagara-former-rwandan-diplomat-dies-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/bihozagara-former-rwandan-diplomat-dies-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Bihozagara, former Rwandan diplomat dies in Burundi prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Former Rwandan Minister of Disaster Management and Refugee Affairs and former ambassador to France, Jacques Bihozagara has died in a Burundi prison where he had been jailed since December 2015.}<\/p>\n<p>Bihozagara was detained on 4th December 2015 in Mpimba prison in Bujumbura over alleged crimes of being a Rwandan spy.<\/p>\n<p>Circulated news on social media indicate that Bihozagara has died of poison in Burundi\u2019s Mpimba jail today around 3:00 pm.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-11273 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1-1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Burundi government arrested Bihozogara alleging him to be a Rwandan spy.The deceased had left political affairs many years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Rwandan ambassador to Burundi, Amandin Rugira, has, via twitter account, said that he has been informed of Bihozagara\u2019s death but not the cause.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-11274 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/2-952.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-11275 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/3-759.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-11275 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/3-759.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-11276 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1-1068.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-11277 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/2-953.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Former Rwandan Minister of Disaster Management and Refugee Affairs and former ambassador to France, Jacques Bihozagara has died in a Burundi prison where he had been jailed since December 2015.} Bihozagara was detained on 4th December 2015 in Mpimba prison in Bujumbura over alleged crimes of being a Rwandan spy. Circulated news on social media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-24257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24257"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=24257"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=24257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}