{"id":183015,"date":"2024-10-21T18:35:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T16:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-authorities-must-immediately-release-arrested-journalist-thomas-allan-zgambo\/"},"modified":"2024-10-21T18:35:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T16:35:56","slug":"zambia-authorities-must-immediately-release-arrested-journalist-thomas-allan-zgambo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-authorities-must-immediately-release-arrested-journalist-thomas-allan-zgambo\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: Authorities Must Immediately Release Arrested Journalist Thomas Allan Zgambo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Responding to the arrest of Zambian journalist Thomas Allan Zgambo in Lusaka, Amnesty International&#8217;s Deputy Director for East and Southern Africa, Vongai Chikwanda, said:<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">&#8220;Zambian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release journalist Thomas Allan Zgambo and stop targeting him simply for doing his job.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Journalism is not a crime. In fact, Zambia&#8217;s Constitution guarantees the right to freedom of expression and media freedom.Vongai Chikwanda, Amnesty International Deputy Regional&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410210034.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to the arrest of Zambian journalist Thomas Allan Zgambo in Lusaka, Amnesty International&#8217;s Deputy Director for East and Southern Africa, Vongai Chikwanda, said: &#8220;Zambian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release journalist Thomas Allan Zgambo and stop targeting him simply for doing his job. Journalism is not a crime. In fact, Zambia&#8217;s Constitution guarantees the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":183016,"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":[825],"tags":[258,256,34162,4304,7215,9836,7277,257,6011,254,6769,4709,881,49349],"class_list":["post-183015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allan","tag-arrested","tag-authorities","tag-immediately","tag-journalist","tag-news","tag-release","tag-south-africa-today","tag-thomas","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news","tag-zgambo"],"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\/183015","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=183015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}