{"id":37590,"date":"2025-05-08T10:37:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T10:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/Burundi-Des-opposants-emprisonnes-sous-pretextes-de-sorcellerie-37590\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T10:32:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T10:32:41","slug":"Burundi-Des-opposants-emprisonnes-sous-pretextes-de-sorcellerie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/Burundi-Des-opposants-emprisonnes-sous-pretextes-de-sorcellerie\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi : Des opposants emprisonn\u00e9s sous pr\u00e9textes de sorcellerie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elias Niyonkuru est un r\u00e9sident de la localit\u00e9 de Nyabihanga, situ\u00e9e dans la province de Ngozi, au nord du Burundi.<\/p>\n<p>D&#8217;apr\u00e8s des informations relay\u00e9es par les m\u00e9dias burundais, il a \u00e9t\u00e9 arr\u00eat\u00e9 le 19 avril 2025 sous l&#8217;accusation de sorcellerie et est actuellement d\u00e9tenu au poste de police de Mubuga.<\/p>\n<p>Si les autorit\u00e9s justifient son arrestation par des pratiques occultes, sa famille et ses voisins rejettent cat\u00e9goriquement ces all\u00e9gations, y voyant plut\u00f4t des motivations politiques.<\/p>\n<p>Selon des sources cr\u00e9dibles, Elias Niyonkuru a toujours refus\u00e9 d&#8217;adh\u00e9rer au CNDD-FDD, le parti au pouvoir, en raison de son soutien \u00e0 Agathon Rwasa, une figure de l&#8217;opposition au r\u00e9gime d\u2019\u00c9variste Ndayishimiye.<\/p>\n<p>Depuis un certain temps, de nombreux Burundais d\u00e9noncent l\u2019utilisation des accusations de sorcellerie comme moyen pour le gouvernement d\u2019emprisonner ses opposants. En 2022, des membres du parti CNL avaient d\u00e9j\u00e0 \u00e9t\u00e9 arr\u00eat\u00e9s \u00e0 Kayanza sous ces m\u00eames all\u00e9gations, avant d&#8217;\u00eatre rel\u00e2ch\u00e9s faute de preuves.<\/p>\n<p>En 2023, une commer\u00e7ante de Makamba avait \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 incarc\u00e9r\u00e9e pour sorcellerie et empoisonnement, peu de temps apr\u00e8s avoir r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9 des cas de corruption au sein de l&#8217;administration locale.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-60871 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fr.igihe.com\/IMG\/jpg\/pnb.jpg\" alt=\"Depuis un certain temps, nombreux sont les burundais qui d\u00e9noncent le recours aux accusations de sorcellerie comme outil d\u2019emprisonnement des opposants\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sous pr\u00e9texte fallacieux d\u2019accusations de sorcellerie, le gouvernement burundais est accus\u00e9 d\u2019avoir arr\u00eat\u00e9 Elias Niyonkuru, membre de l\u2019opposition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":488,"featured_media":4000060870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7544],"tags":[7605],"byline":[9865],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politique","tag-homenews","byline-alain-bertrand-tunezerwe"],"bylines":[{"id":9865,"name":"Alain Bertrand Tunezerwe","slug":"alain-bertrand-tunezerwe","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":452}],"contributors":[{"id":9865,"name":"Alain Bertrand Tunezerwe","slug":"alain-bertrand-tunezerwe","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":452}],"featured_image":{"id":4000060870,"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/pnb_cp.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/pnb_cp.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/pnb_cp.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/pnb_cp.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/pnb_cp.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/pnb_cp.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4000060870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37590"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37590"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}