{"id":46776,"date":"2022-10-05T15:30:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T15:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/iwacu-tv-journalists-acquitted\/"},"modified":"2022-10-07T06:51:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T06:51:31","slug":"iwacu-tv-journalists-acquitted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/iwacu-tv-journalists-acquitted\/","title":{"rendered":"Iwacu TV journalists acquitted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The journalists include Jean Damasc\u00e8ne Mutuyimana, Jean Baptiste Nshimiyimana and Schadrack Niyonsenga who were arrested in October 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The High Court has said that the Prosecution did not present tangible evidences pinning them and ordered their immediate release.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was revealed that the Prosecution did not present tangible evidences on inciting public insurrection, and of spreading false information with intention to create hostile international opinion against Rwanda. None of them happened,\u201d Jean Paul Ibambe, the defense lawyer of the three journalists has told IGIHE.  <\/p>\n<p>The Prosecution\u2019s allegations are based on stories published on the journalists\u2019 YouTube channel on attacks of FLN to Rwanda in 2018.    <\/p>\n<p>Ibambe has said that the journalists told the court that the attacks occurred where there are individuals convicted of involvement. <\/p>\n<p>They have been detained for four years. Ibambe said that the trio has rights to appeal for compensation noting that their acquittal is what matters the most.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-44486 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/abanya-2.jpg\" alt=\"The three journalists of Iwacu TV have spent four years in jail. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The High Court has acquitted three journalists owning a YouTube channel dubbed \u2018Iwacu TV\u2019 who have been facing charges of spreading false information with intention to create hostile international opinion against Rwanda, publishing unoriginal statements, and inciting public insurrection. }   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-46776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justice","tag-featured-news-home","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\/46776","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46776"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=46776"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=46776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}