{"id":37681,"date":"2019-03-27T18:23:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T18:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37681"},"modified":"2019-03-27T18:23:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T18:23:24","slug":"burundi-girls-who-drew-on-presidents-photo-freed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37681","title":{"rendered":"Burundi girls who drew on President&#8217;s photo freed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>The Burundi schoolgirls detained for drawing on a photo of President Pierre Nkurunziza in their schoolbooks have been freed, a Human Rights Watch official told CNN on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Human Rights Watch Central Africa director Lewis Mudge said the three girls were freed from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/03\/27\/africa\/burundi-schoolgirls-held-in-jail-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ngozi Central Prison two days<\/a> after Justice Minister Aim\u00e9e Laurentine Kanyana told state broadcaster RTNB that their provisional release had been approved. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The schoolgirls were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/03\/21\/africa\/burundi-schoolgirls-charged-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">charged March 18 <\/a>with &#8220;insulting the head of state&#8221; and faced up to five years in jail if they were convicted.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)The Burundi schoolgirls detained for drawing on a photo of President Pierre Nkurunziza in their schoolbooks have been freed, a Human Rights Watch official told CNN on Wednesday.Human Rights Watch Central Africa director Lewis Mudge said the three girls were freed from Ngozi Central Prison two days after Justice Minister Aim\u00e9e Laurentine Kanyana told state&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":37682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}