{"id":6730,"date":"2013-03-25T09:39:38","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T09:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/high-court-upholds-sentence-of-umusingi-editor\/"},"modified":"2013-03-25T09:50:17","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T09:50:17","slug":"high-court-upholds-sentence-of-umusingi-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/high-court-upholds-sentence-of-umusingi-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"High Court Upholds Sentence of Umusingi Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{The Rwanda High Court has upheld a one year prison sentence of Local journalist Gatera Stanley of Umusingi vernacular tabloid.}}<\/p>\n<p>Gasabo Intermediate Court in the capital, Kigali, sentenced Gatera, 22, to a one-year jail term and fines of Frw30,000 (US$50) for inciting divisionism and gender discrimination in an opinion column he published in Umusingi in June, according to local journalists and news reports.<\/p>\n<p>In his article \u201cShangazi\u201d (Dear Aunt), Gatera suggested that men may regret marrying a Tutsi woman solely for her beauty. <\/p>\n<p>However, Gatera, who defended himself in court, said that the paper had run an apology from him in a subsequent issue. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-2234 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/Gatera1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{Gatera Stanley&#8211;Umusingi Editor}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{The Rwanda High Court has upheld a one year prison sentence of Local journalist Gatera Stanley of Umusingi vernacular tabloid.}} Gasabo Intermediate Court in the capital, Kigali, sentenced Gatera, 22, to a one-year jail term and fines of Frw30,000 (US$50) for inciting divisionism and gender discrimination in an opinion column he published in Umusingi in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[334],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-6730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe-reporter"],"bylines":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","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":null}],"contributors":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","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":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6730"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=6730"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=6730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}