{"id":174855,"date":"2024-06-20T01:10:51","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T23:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-famo-members-get-hefty-jail-terms\/"},"modified":"2024-06-20T01:10:51","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T23:10:51","slug":"lesotho-famo-members-get-hefty-jail-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-famo-members-get-hefty-jail-terms\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Famo Members Get Hefty Jail Terms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><em><em>slapped with 10-year sentences each<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><em>as gvt begins to enforce famo ban<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><em>but famo violence still spreads with two more shot dead<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">THREE Leribe men have been slapped with 10-year jail sentences each after being found guilty of wearing regalia of banned <em>famo<\/em> groups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The hefty sentences (even though they were accompanied with the option of a fine) prove the government is serious with enforcing the ban on the activities of the<em> famo<\/em> groups blamed for fuelling rampant crime which has paralysed the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406180360.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>slapped with 10-year sentences each as gvt begins to enforce famo ban but famo violence still spreads with two more shot dead THREE Leribe men have been slapped with 10-year jail sentences each after being found guilty of wearing regalia of banned famo groups. The hefty sentences (even though they were accompanied with the option [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":174856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,14631,10082,7354,4717,1407,4326,257,254,10187],"class_list":["post-174855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-famo","tag-hefty","tag-jail","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-members","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-terms"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}