{"id":186763,"date":"2024-12-17T13:37:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T11:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-mdm-activist-kidnapped-and-beaten-in-beira\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T13:37:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T11:37:48","slug":"mozambique-mdm-activist-kidnapped-and-beaten-in-beira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-mdm-activist-kidnapped-and-beaten-in-beira\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: MDM Activist Kidnapped and Beaten in Beira"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Maputo \u2014 Unknown assailants kidnapped and severely beat a senior figure in the opposition Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM) on Saturday night in the central city of Beira.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The MDM activist, Ricardo Lang, is a member of the Beira Municipal Assembly, and a former chairperson of the Assembly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Lang told the independent television station STV that he had left a bakery at about 22.00, but was forced to get out of his car when another vehicle hit him in the back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">He was looking at the damage to the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412170038.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maputo \u2014 Unknown assailants kidnapped and severely beat a senior figure in the opposition Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM) on Saturday night in the central city of Beira. The MDM activist, Ricardo Lang, is a member of the Beira Municipal Assembly, and a former chairperson of the Assembly. Lang told the independent television station STV that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":186764,"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":[654],"tags":[8956,258,256,1731,1071,476,10372,4704,682,257,254],"class_list":["post-186763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-activist","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-beaten","tag-beira","tag-kidnapped","tag-mdm","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/186763","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=186763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}