{"id":28853,"date":"2016-09-23T03:17:36","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T03:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rcs-denies-barring-eu-parliamentarians-from\/"},"modified":"2016-09-26T09:59:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T09:59:45","slug":"rcs-denies-barring-eu-parliamentarians-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rcs-denies-barring-eu-parliamentarians-from\/","title":{"rendered":"RCS denies barring EU parliamentarians from visiting Ingabire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The delegation of European Union parliamentarians which has been in Rwanda for a three-day visit has expressed disappointment over being denied access to visit Ingabire Victoire, chairperson of United Democratic Forces-Inkingi, in Nyarugenge prison known as 1930 where she is serving time for treason and threatening national security. } <\/p>\n<p>The head of EU MPs delegation, Iratxe Garcia Perez told the press yesterday that they wanted to establish how she is being treated. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to have a meet with Victoire Ingabire because we wanted to know her situation in prison,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The authorities have not allowed us, that we have no permission from the authorities,\u201d said Iratxe Garcia Perez.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson of Rwanda Correctional Service, CIP Sengabo Hillary has said that he received no request from the European Union parliamentarians. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll foreigners in need of visiting prisoners have to pass through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and we authorize them immediately. Netherlands\u2019 visitors who visited Ingabire Victoire recently passed through this process. She is used to be visited by foreigners,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that Guinea\u2019s ambassador and Uganda\u2019s embassy officials are among recent visitors to their people detained in Nyarugenge prison. <\/p>\n<p>Ingabire Victoire is serving a 15 year sentence after being  convicted of  treason  and  threatening state security.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-15208 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/victoire-in-court.jpg\" alt=\"Ingabire Victoire, chairperson of United Democratic Forces-Inkingi is in Nyarugenge prison known as 1930 where she is serving time for treason and threatening national security. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The delegation of European Union parliamentarians which has been in Rwanda for a three-day visit has expressed disappointment over being denied access to visit Ingabire Victoire, chairperson of United Democratic Forces-Inkingi, in Nyarugenge prison known as 1930 where she is serving time for treason and threatening national security. } The head of EU MPs delegation, [&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-28853","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\/28853","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=28853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28853"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=28853"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=28853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}