{"id":33244,"date":"2022-10-06T12:58:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T09:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=33244"},"modified":"2022-10-06T12:58:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T09:58:49","slug":"sixteen-year-jail-term-sought-for-miss-rwanda-organizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/06\/sixteen-year-jail-term-sought-for-miss-rwanda-organizer\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixteen-Year Jail Term Sought For Miss Rwanda Organizer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rwandan prosecutors are requesting 16 years in prison for Dieudonn\u00e9 Kagame Ishimwe, the Rwanda beauty pageant organiser accused of sexual abuse, local media report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His trial started on Wednesday, but a judge immediately decided it would be held behind closed doors despite the defendant\u2019s wish for it to be open to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Ishimwe is accused of soliciting or offering sexual favours and harassing some contestants in the Miss Rwanda contest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He denies both charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Ishimwe was arrested in May after one of the beauty contestants made the accusations against him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The authorities have since suspended the pageant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The court is expected to decide on the case later this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>BBC News Africa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwandan prosecutors are requesting 16 years in prison for Dieudonn\u00e9 Kagame Ishimwe, the Rwanda beauty pageant organiser accused of sexual abuse, local media report. His trial started on Wednesday, but a judge immediately decided it would be held behind closed doors despite the defendant\u2019s wish for it to be open to the public. Mr Ishimwe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":30436,"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":[100],"tags":[7929],"class_list":["post-33244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-dieudonne-kagame-ishimwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33244","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=33244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33248,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33244\/revisions\/33248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}