{"id":187284,"date":"2024-12-26T01:04:55","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T23:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-lsk-demands-release-of-influencers-allegedly-abducted-for-criticising-president-ruto\/"},"modified":"2024-12-26T01:04:55","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T23:04:55","slug":"kenya-lsk-demands-release-of-influencers-allegedly-abducted-for-criticising-president-ruto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-lsk-demands-release-of-influencers-allegedly-abducted-for-criticising-president-ruto\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: LSK Demands Release of Influencers Allegedly Abducted for Criticising President Ruto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Nairobi Kenya \u2014 <em>The Law Society of Kenya (LSK) has called for the immediate release of Billy Mwangi and Peter Muteti, who were allegedly abducted after posting controversial tweets about President William Ruto.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">LSK President Faith Odhiambo criticized the abductions as a violation of citizens&#8217; rights, describing them as part of a growing trend of repressive tactics by the government. She urged the authorities to respect Kenya&#8217;s Bill of Rights and present the individuals in court if they are&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412240392.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 Kenya \u2014 The Law Society of Kenya (LSK) has called for the immediate release of Billy Mwangi and Peter Muteti, who were allegedly abducted after posting controversial tweets about President William Ruto. LSK President Faith Odhiambo criticized the abductions as a violation of citizens&#8217; rights, describing them as part of a growing trend of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":187285,"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":[3271,258,256,5128,21098,6979,22828,4688,430,1034,257,2450,6011,11238,254],"class_list":["post-187284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-abducted","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allegedly","tag-criticising","tag-demands","tag-influencers","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-lsk","tag-news","tag-president","tag-release","tag-ruto","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\/187284","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=187284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}