AN opposition member of the Burkina Faso parliament and a human rights leader were arrested on Monday following new riots over the murder of a journalist, Security Minister Colonel Djibril Bassole said. Hermann Yameogo, son of the country’s first president Maurice Yameogo when it was known as Upper Volta, will be charged with organising the disturbances in his constituency of Koudougou, 80km west of Ougadougou, Bassole said. Also arrested were Halidou Ouedraogo, head of the Burkina human rights movement, and Thibauta Nana, chairman of the Thomas Sankara Association, named after the left-wing president overthrown by the current head of state, Blaise Compaore, Bassole said. An independent investigation concluded earlier this month that Zongo, who came from Koudougou, was murdered by elements of the presidential guard simply because he was an investigative journalist.