{"id":183926,"date":"2024-11-04T19:07:13","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T17:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-should-stop-harassing-investigative-journalist\/"},"modified":"2024-11-04T19:07:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T17:07:13","slug":"zambia-should-stop-harassing-investigative-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-should-stop-harassing-investigative-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia Should Stop Harassing Investigative Journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><em>Thomas Zgambo Prosecuted for Exposing Corruption, Rights Abuses<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">On October 16, police in Zambia&#8217;s capital, Lusaka, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/zambianobserver.com\/police-arrest-journalist-thomas-zgambo\/\" rel=\"noopener\">arrested<\/a> investigative journalist Thomas Zgambo and detained him without charge for nearly two weeks. Zgambo writes for the online news outlet <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/@zambianwhistleblower\/?_rdc=1&amp;_rdr\" rel=\"noopener\">Zambian Whistleblower<\/a>, which has exposed alleged corruption, human rights abuses, and abuse of power under President Hakainde Hichilema.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">A day into his detention, Zgambo, 52, wrote on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/100063743840552\/posts\/pfbid028KQSUqCFaKAG5dzgKsNEhEwurRoBdUSVk3fFYwKjqz1UsktjjTBy9xHMQN4774iyl\/?mibextid=WC7FNe&amp;_rdc=1&amp;_rdr\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> that the police had demanded access to his phones&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411040053.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>Thomas Zgambo Prosecuted for Exposing Corruption, Rights Abuses On October 16, police in Zambia&#8217;s capital, Lusaka, arrested investigative journalist Thomas Zgambo and detained him without charge for nearly two weeks. Zgambo writes for the online news outlet Zambian Whistleblower, which has exposed alleged corruption, human rights abuses, and abuse of power under President Hakainde Hichilema. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":183927,"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":[258,256,13070,6954,7277,257,254,8652,4709,881],"class_list":["post-183926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-harassing","tag-investigative","tag-journalist","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stop","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"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\/183926","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=183926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}