{"id":185062,"date":"2024-11-21T23:31:53","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T21:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ruto-condemns-illegal-arrests-urges-kenyans-to-report-extrajudicial-actions\/"},"modified":"2024-11-21T23:31:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T21:31:53","slug":"kenya-ruto-condemns-illegal-arrests-urges-kenyans-to-report-extrajudicial-actions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ruto-condemns-illegal-arrests-urges-kenyans-to-report-extrajudicial-actions\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Ruto Condemns Illegal Arrests, Urges Kenyans to Report Extrajudicial Actions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Nairobi \u2014 President William Ruto has unequivocally condemned illegal arrests, extrajudicial actions, and threats to life, calling them serious threats to the life and liberty of citizens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">In his State of the Nation Address, Ruto emphasized that such acts are unacceptable and must be addressed with urgency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\">&#8220;I must make it very clear that there is no attempt to justify or excuse illegal arrests: such would be serious threats to the life and liberty of citizens. I condemn any excessive or&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411210654.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 President William Ruto has unequivocally condemned illegal arrests, extrajudicial actions, and threats to life, calling them serious threats to the life and liberty of citizens. In his State of the Nation Address, Ruto emphasized that such acts are unacceptable and must be addressed with urgency. &#8220;I must make it very clear that there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":185063,"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":[250],"tags":[10838,258,256,7845,7610,32799,6918,4688,430,9058,257,5144,11238,254,6810],"class_list":["post-185062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-actions","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrests","tag-condemns","tag-extrajudicial","tag-illegal","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyans","tag-news","tag-report","tag-ruto","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urges"],"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\/185062","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}