{"id":39096,"date":"2019-04-04T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/six-more-rwandans-deported-from-uganda\/"},"modified":"2019-04-04T13:04:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T13:04:39","slug":"six-more-rwandans-deported-from-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/six-more-rwandans-deported-from-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Six more Rwandans deported from Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The deported Rwandans arrived at Kagitumba border yesterday around 6pm.<\/p>\n<p>As they testified, they were arrested despite having all travel documents on 17th January 2019 as they crossed the border to work in Uganda. <\/p>\n<p>They were picked in military cars to Ntungamo prison where they were deprived of their travel documents stamped at the border and accused of illegal entry to Uganda. <\/p>\n<p>They were taken to court, handed three months sentence and met over 100 Rwandans in jail. They say were subjected to forced labor including cultivating land of Uganda\u2019s military officers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey would often take us to cultivate their land. We did it under beatings and whoever dared to escape would be burnt on the foot,\u201d said Tharcisse Maniragaba one of deportees. <\/p>\n<p>Vedaste Shyaka from Matimba sector in Nyagatare district said when Ugandan security find someone with identity card and other travel documents, they shift and instead ask for a passport to complicate the case. <\/p>\n<p>Mupenzi Nizeyimana said prison officers get contracts at building sites in town where they deploy jailed Rwandans for construction activities, making bricks, chopping firewood among others. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey force Rwandans to do such works regardless of whether you are sick or not. Saying that you are sick is nonsense to them,\u201d he explained adding that Rwandans were told that they are no longer needed to stay in Uganda.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28676 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/img_20190403_120555-b1411.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six Rwandans who have been detained at Ntungamo prison in Uganda for three months have been deported to Rwanda claiming to have left over 100 fellows in the facility. <\/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":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-39096","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\/39096","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=39096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39096"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39096"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}