{"id":177548,"date":"2024-07-30T08:51:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T06:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-false-start-to-78-ccc-activists-trial\/"},"modified":"2024-07-30T08:51:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T06:51:45","slug":"zimbabwe-false-start-to-78-ccc-activists-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-false-start-to-78-ccc-activists-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: False Start to 78 CCC Activists&#8217; Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"61\">The trial of 78 Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activists failed to start yesterday after their lawyers demanded a report on the abuse that they were allegedly subjected to when they were arrested.The 78 activists are facing allegations of participating in an unlawful gathering and disorderly conduct.During the previous sitting, the State was ordered to conduct investigations into the alleged abuse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">The lawyers told the court that the State was in contempt of court as they did not comply with&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407300063.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trial of 78 Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activists failed to start yesterday after their lawyers demanded a report on the abuse that they were allegedly subjected to when they were arrested.The 78 activists are facing allegations of participating in an unlawful gathering and disorderly conduct.During the previous sitting, the State was ordered to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[6008,258,256,41401,7556,257,254,7138,6564,4686,421],"class_list":["post-177548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-activists","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ccc","tag-false","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-start","tag-trial","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177548","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=177548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}