{"id":41382,"date":"2020-05-16T07:13:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T07:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/uganda-to-release-over-170-rwandans-detained-illegally\/"},"modified":"2020-05-19T19:03:46","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T19:03:46","slug":"uganda-to-release-over-170-rwandans-detained-illegally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/uganda-to-release-over-170-rwandans-detained-illegally\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda to release over 170 Rwandans detained illegally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister made the remarks in a press conference on Friday which was also attended by State Minister in charge of the East African Community,  Prof Nshuti Manasseh.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Biruta said that there are significant improvements in Rwandan-Ugandan relations despite some  negative acts of violence against Rwandans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have been talking to Uganda for days, we have been talking to Angola for days through teleconferencing,&#8221; Biruta said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a list of Rwandans who will be released from Ugandan prisons, we are checking to see if they have been convicted of crimes [&#8230;] and we are still looking to find out how they were arrested,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35646 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ry6b9883-3-9e6a2.jpg\" alt=\"The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Vincent Biruta has said that Uganda is to release 176 Rwandans who have been illegally detained for a long time\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35647 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ry6b9837-3-9ff60.jpg\" alt=\" State Minister in charge of the East African Community,  Prof Nshuti Manasseh attended the meeting.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35648 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ry6b9833-4-b7925.jpg\" alt=\"The Minister made the remarks in a press conference on Friday\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Vincent Biruta has said that Uganda is to release 176 Rwandans who have been illegally detained for a long time, which is a good sign that the relationship between the two countries could be restored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[204],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-41382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-elina-jonas-ruzindaza"],"bylines":[{"id":204,"name":"Elina Jonas Ruzindaza","slug":"elina-jonas-ruzindaza","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":103}],"contributors":[{"id":204,"name":"Elina Jonas Ruzindaza","slug":"elina-jonas-ruzindaza","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":103}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41382","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\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41382"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=41382"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=41382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}