{"id":22129,"date":"2021-03-05T09:05:52","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T06:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=22129"},"modified":"2021-03-05T09:05:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T06:05:56","slug":"rwandan-youtuber-arraigned-in-court-charged-with-spreading-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/05\/rwandan-youtuber-arraigned-in-court-charged-with-spreading-rumors\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwandan YouTuber Arraigned In court, Charged With Spreading Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rwandan YouTuber Yvonne Idamange Iryamugwiza has been arraigned in court in the capital Kigali on six charges including insurrection and incitement to public disorder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She is accused of &#8220;spreading rumours using technology\u201d, \u201ccontempt for genocide memorials\u201d, \u201cobstruction of the implementation of government policies\u201d and \u201cusing counterfeit bank cheques\u201d among other charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She denies all charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The YouTuber rose to prominence with videos critical of President Paul Kagame and the Rwandan government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In one video on her YouTube channel, she criticised the government for displaying the bones of genocide victims in memorials. She said the remains should instead be buried with dignity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She was arrested on 15 February and Thursday&#8217;s appearance was the first time she has been seen in court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The opposition party PS Imberakuri criticised her arrest as an attempt to stifle free speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwandan YouTuber Yvonne Idamange Iryamugwiza has been arraigned in court in the capital Kigali on six charges including insurrection and incitement to public disorder. She is accused of &#8220;spreading rumours using technology\u201d, \u201ccontempt for genocide memorials\u201d, \u201cobstruction of the implementation of government policies\u201d and \u201cusing counterfeit bank cheques\u201d among other charges. She denies all charges. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":22130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[356,98],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-22129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-story","category-news","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22131,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22129\/revisions\/22131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}