{"id":40844,"date":"2020-02-17T12:17:18","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T12:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/singer-kizito-mihigo-commits-suicide\/"},"modified":"2020-02-19T18:14:41","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T18:14:41","slug":"singer-kizito-mihigo-commits-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/singer-kizito-mihigo-commits-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer Kizito Mihigo commits suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a communication to the press posted on Twitter, RNP stated that 38-year old Mihigo committed suicide at around 5 in the morning. <\/p>\n

He had been in jail for 3 days as he was being investigated for the attempted illegal border crossing to Burundi, violating his conditional liberty terms as well as corruption.<\/p>\n

Mihigo and Victoire Ingabire, founder of FDU Inkingi received Presidential pardon two years ago announced during a cabinet meeting which saw 2140 other convicts set free as well. <\/p>\n

He had been sentenced to 15 years in prison for the attempt to assassinate President Paul Kagame and destabilizing the country by collaborating with Anti-Rwanda armed groups. Mihigo had served 5 years before he was pardoned.<\/p>\n

On 15th and 16th February 2020, he was visited by his family members and his lawyer. Investigations are is being conducted to identify the reason behind the suicide.<\/p>\n

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Rwanda National Police (RNP) has announced that singer, Kizito Mihigo who was held at Remera Police station has committed suicide<\/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-40844","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\/40844","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=40844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40844"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=40844"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=40844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}