{"id":38571,"date":"2018-11-29T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/bbc-rwanda-journalist-in-custody-over-terrorism\/"},"modified":"2018-11-29T09:59:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T09:59:51","slug":"bbc-rwanda-journalist-in-custody-over-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/bbc-rwanda-journalist-in-custody-over-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Rwanda journalist in custody over terrorism charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ndayizera was arrested last week with another man suspected to have handed him the dynamite.<\/p>\n<p>Ndayizera who resides in Muhanga District was presented to media today Wednesday, 28th November at RIB headquarters in Kimihurura, Kigali.   <\/p>\n<p>Speaking to members of local and international media, Ndayizera denied all the charges against him saying \u201cI know nothing about those dynamites.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The Spokesperson of the Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB), Modeste Mbabazi said Ndayizera was arrested in Nyamirambo, Kigali last week after he had received the dynamite.<\/p>\n<p>Terrorism is punished under article 19 of the antiterrorism law. It stipulates that any person who attempts, takes part or supports terrorism acts commits a crime and upon conviction, he shall be liable to a penalty of not less than 15 years of imprisonment but not more than 20 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phocas Ndayizera, a local journalist who works as a freelancer for the BBC is in hands of the Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB) after he allegedly was red-handedly arrested with a dynamite that he intended to use in creating insecurity.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[69],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homehighlights","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\/38571","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38571"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38571"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}