{"id":182238,"date":"2024-10-10T05:51:18","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T03:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-u-s-president-biden-must-demand-immediate-release-of-five-arbitrarily-detained-government-critics\/"},"modified":"2024-10-10T05:51:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T03:51:18","slug":"angola-u-s-president-biden-must-demand-immediate-release-of-five-arbitrarily-detained-government-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-u-s-president-biden-must-demand-immediate-release-of-five-arbitrarily-detained-government-critics\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: U.S. President Biden Must Demand Immediate Release of Five Arbitrarily Detained Government Critics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">During his visit to Angola from 13 to 15 October, US President Joe Biden must demand Angolan President Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o and his government immediately release five government critics arbitrarily detained for more than a year, four of whom have been tortured through <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2024\/09\/angola-immediately-release-activists-wrongfully-jailed-for-one-year-and-denied-medical-care\/#:~:text=Angolan%20authorities%20must%20immediately\" rel=\"noopener\">deliberate denial of medical care<\/a>, Amnesty International said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">President Biden must also demand President Louren\u00e7o and his government stop the four-year crackdown on peaceful protests which has killed dozens of people, including&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410090021.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During his visit to Angola from 13 to 15 October, US President Joe Biden must demand Angolan President Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o and his government immediately release five government critics arbitrarily detained for more than a year, four of whom have been tortured through deliberate denial of medical care, Amnesty International said. President Biden must also demand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":182239,"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":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,18395,36243,8951,7617,3707,6427,257,2450,6011,254,2282],"class_list":["post-182238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-arbitrarily","tag-biden","tag-critics","tag-demand","tag-detained","tag-government","tag-news","tag-president","tag-release","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s"],"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\/182238","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=182238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}