{"id":32900,"date":"2017-02-28T17:16:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T17:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/ntaganda-goes-on-hunger-strike\/"},"modified":"2017-03-02T12:58:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T12:58:22","slug":"ntaganda-goes-on-hunger-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/ntaganda-goes-on-hunger-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Ntaganda goes on hunger strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Bernard Ntaganda, an advocate and founder of Imberakuri political organization has  announced that he will go on a hunger strike  and will shift his residence to the headquarters of Rwanda Bar Association, protesting the Bar\u2019s refusal to readmit him. }   <\/p>\n<p>Three years after his release, Ntaganda has been denied rejoining Rwanda Bar Association  claiming he should not be disbarred citing a precedent where other suspended advocates in 2011 were readmitted. <\/p>\n<p>Ntaganda was in 2011 sentenced to for four years having been found guilty of  threatening national security, divisionism, collaborating with insurgents  intending to destabilize national security and illegal demonstrations. <\/p>\n<p>After his release he sought to rejoin Rwanda Bar Association which rejected his appeal because he had been convicted and served for more than six months in jail. <\/p>\n<p>However; Ntaganda claims to be right  to return to  the bar association after his release.  \u201cHow come a person can be barred from rejoining his profession because he has not worked for four years yet other lawyers  who had been suspended in 2011 rejoined the same career,\u201d reads part of the statement he has released. <\/p>\n<p>Ntaganda claims are based on the decision of Rwanda Bar Association of 7th July 2011 which suspended 112 lawyers including him (Ntaganda) over unpaid contribution in the association but readmitted  later. <\/p>\n<p>IGIHE has tried to talk the Rwanda Bar Association officials but the efforts were  futile. <\/p>\n<p>Article 6 of the law N\u00ba 83\/2013 of 11\/09\/2013 establishing Rwanda Bar Association in Rwanda indicates that no person can become a court advocate  or execute similar tasks if he has been convicted and  served six months or beyond in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Other requirements include holding at least a bachelor\u2019s degree in law or holding a certificate from ILPD, passing the exam to join Rwanda Bar Association, free of genocide ideology, genocide involvement or related crimes. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-18536 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/maxresdefault-49-8cffd.jpg\" alt=\"Bernard Ntaganda, an advocate and founder of Imberakuri political organization \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Bernard Ntaganda, an advocate and founder of Imberakuri political organization has announced that he will go on a hunger strike and will shift his residence to the headquarters of Rwanda Bar Association, protesting the Bar\u2019s refusal to readmit him. } Three years after his release, Ntaganda has been denied rejoining Rwanda Bar Association claiming he [&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":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-32900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32900","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=32900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32900"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=32900"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=32900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}