{"id":37684,"date":"2018-06-11T15:59:06","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T15:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kizito-mihigo-appeal-transferred-to-the-court-of\/"},"modified":"2018-06-11T15:58:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T15:58:59","slug":"kizito-mihigo-appeal-transferred-to-the-court-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kizito-mihigo-appeal-transferred-to-the-court-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Kizito Mihigo appeal transferred to the Court of Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May, the Supreme Court adjourned Kizito\u2019s appeal hearing to June 11th because his co-accused Jean Paul Dukuzumuremyi had no lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>At 9:00am, Kizito and his lawyer, Antoinette Mukamusoni arrived at the court and the court clerks told them that their case has been transferred to the Court of Appeal and the decision was communicated to the Prison officials.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to IGIHE, the Judiciary Spokesperson, Harrison Mutabazi said that the case has been transferred as stipulated by legal procedures.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cIt is true, it has been moved. There are cases in Supreme Court that are being transferred to the Court of Appeal, the same with Kizito\u2019s case,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that they are yet to set the next hearing date, but assured that the court will soon start operations and Kizito\u2019s case will be among those to start with.<\/p>\n<p>On February 27th 2015, the High Court in Kigali found Kizito guilty of the crimes of formation of a criminal gang, conspiracy against the established government or the President of the Republic and conspiracy to murder. <\/p>\n<p>The court sentenced him to ten years in prison which he appealed.<\/p>\n<p>Kizito co-accused, former Journalist Cassien Ntamuhanga who had been handed 25 years in Prison later escaped, and Jean Paul Dukuzumuremyi. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25743 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/urubanza_rwa_kizito_rwimuriwe_mu_rukiko_rw_ubujurire-1-8c050.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer Kizito Mihigo case hearing  has been moved from Supreme Court and transferred in the newly established Court of Appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","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\/37684","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37684"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37684"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}