{"id":178051,"date":"2024-08-07T09:10:13","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T07:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-crackdown-on-activists-raises-global-alarm\/"},"modified":"2024-08-07T09:10:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T07:10:13","slug":"zimbabwe-crackdown-on-activists-raises-global-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-crackdown-on-activists-raises-global-alarm\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Crackdown On Activists Raises Global Alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Human rights and civil society organizations across Africa have raised alarms over the intensifying repression in Zimbabwe, warning of a severe crackdown on civic freedoms and democratic principles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">In a statement, forty-four organizations from across the continent castigated what they termed state-sponsored violence which have been characterised by arbitrary arrests and brutal harassment of human rights activists and opposition members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">&#8220;Human rights and civil society organizations across the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408070050.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>Human rights and civil society organizations across Africa have raised alarms over the intensifying repression in Zimbabwe, warning of a severe crackdown on civic freedoms and democratic principles. In a statement, forty-four organizations from across the continent castigated what they termed state-sponsored violence which have been characterised by arbitrary arrests and brutal harassment of human [&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":[6008,258,256,9582,14409,6212,257,5234,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-178051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-activists","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alarm","tag-crackdown","tag-global","tag-news","tag-raises","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178051","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=178051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178051\/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=178051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}