{"id":8374,"date":"2013-06-10T05:22:01","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T05:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/ban-ki-moon-criticises-burundi-media-law\/"},"modified":"2013-06-10T05:23:47","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T05:23:47","slug":"ban-ki-moon-criticises-burundi-media-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/ban-ki-moon-criticises-burundi-media-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Ban Ki-moon Criticises Burundi Media Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{UN leader Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday slammed a new law passed by Burundi\u2019s government that he said would have a \u201cnegative impact\u201d on press freedom.}} <\/p>\n<p>President Pierre Nkurunziza approved the law, widely condemned by media watchdogs and rights groups, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe secretary general regrets that a new media law in Burundi was promulgated with provisions that may have a negative impact on the freedom of the press,\u201d said UN spokesman Martin Nesirky.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe emphasises that the right to freedom of expression and pluralistic and free media are essential components of a healthy democracy.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-2921 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/pierre_nkurunziza_burundi_president_nkurunziza_y6r6mltgyijl.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{Burundi&#8217;s President Pierre Nkurunziza } <\/p>\n<p>{AFP}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{UN leader Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday slammed a new law passed by Burundi\u2019s government that he said would have a \u201cnegative impact\u201d on press freedom.}} President Pierre Nkurunziza approved the law, widely condemned by media watchdogs and rights groups, on Tuesday. \u201cThe secretary general regrets that a new media law in Burundi was promulgated with [&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":[99],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-8374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","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\/8374","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=8374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8374"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=8374"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=8374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}