{"id":24279,"date":"2021-06-03T12:06:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T09:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=24279"},"modified":"2021-06-03T12:06:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T09:06:30","slug":"rwandan-youtuber-arrested-for-allegedly-denying-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/03\/rwandan-youtuber-arrested-for-allegedly-denying-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwandan YouTuber Arrested For Allegedly Denying Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Rwandan authorities have arrested an outspoken YouTuber on charges of denying the 1994 genocide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If found guilty the former university lecturer, Aimable Karasira, could face more than a decade in jail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement the Rwanda Investigative Bureau said he had sown division in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a video posted last month Mr Karasira accused the governing Rwandan Patriotic Front of fuelling hate, and questioned some aspects of the genocide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rights groups criticise president Paul Kagame&#8217;s government for cracking down on free speech and misusing laws on genocide denial to round up critics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An opposition party has called for Mr Karasira&#8217;s immediate release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rwandan authorities have arrested an outspoken YouTuber on charges of denying the 1994 genocide. If found guilty the former university lecturer, Aimable Karasira, could face more than a decade in jail. In a statement the Rwanda Investigative Bureau said he had sown division in the country. In a video posted last month Mr Karasira [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":24281,"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":[161],"tags":[6412,31],"class_list":["post-24279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-aimable-karasira","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24279","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=24279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24282,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24279\/revisions\/24282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}