{"id":178264,"date":"2024-08-10T09:49:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T07:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-chiefs-vexed-with-ban-on-trials-by-ordeal\/"},"modified":"2024-08-10T09:49:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T07:49:28","slug":"liberia-chiefs-vexed-with-ban-on-trials-by-ordeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-chiefs-vexed-with-ban-on-trials-by-ordeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Chiefs Vexed With Ban On Trials By Ordeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\"><em>&#8212; Ministry of Internal Affairs cites &#8220;lack of evidence&#8221; in witchcraft cases<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">If you thought the idea of &#8220;witch-hunting&#8221; in Liberia was just a metaphor to describe the ruling party&#8217;s alleged attempts to clamp down on and frustrate opposition elements, think again. Now, those who are actually in the business of determining who the actual witches are, have been ordered to stop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">Scores of traditional chiefs and elders attending the Ministry of Internal Affairs National Orientation Workshop are&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408090439.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; Ministry of Internal Affairs cites &#8220;lack of evidence&#8221; in witchcraft cases If you thought the idea of &#8220;witch-hunting&#8221; in Liberia was just a metaphor to describe the ruling party&#8217;s alleged attempts to clamp down on and frustrate opposition elements, think again. Now, those who are actually in the business of determining who the actual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":178265,"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":[1086],"tags":[258,256,7185,7493,4712,1107,257,15112,254,14958,49253],"class_list":["post-178264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ban","tag-chiefs","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-ordeal","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trials","tag-vexed"],"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\/178264","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}