{"id":187453,"date":"2024-12-29T01:47:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T23:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-president-joao-lourenco-pardons-51-convicted-citizens\/"},"modified":"2024-12-29T01:47:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T23:47:59","slug":"angola-president-joao-lourenco-pardons-51-convicted-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-president-joao-lourenco-pardons-51-convicted-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: President Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o Pardons 51 Convicted Citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Luanda \u2014 The Angolan Head of State, Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o on Wednesday, in Luanda, granted pardon to 51 national citizens sentenced to various prison terms, with emphasis on Jos\u00e9 Filomeno dos Santos &#8220;Zenu&#8221;, son of former President of the Republic, Jos\u00e9 Eduardo dos Santos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The 51 citizens will be returned to freedom due to &#8220;good behavior demonstrated and the absence of danger&#8221;, reads the Presidential Decree.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">According to the decree made public, the pardon takes into account that the proclamation of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412270102.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luanda \u2014 The Angolan Head of State, Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o on Wednesday, in Luanda, granted pardon to 51 national citizens sentenced to various prison terms, with emphasis on Jos\u00e9 Filomeno dos Santos &#8220;Zenu&#8221;, son of former President of the Republic, Jos\u00e9 Eduardo dos Santos. The 51 citizens will be returned to freedom due to &#8220;good behavior [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":187454,"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":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,7604,11361,14019,14020,257,5287,2450,254],"class_list":["post-187453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-citizens","tag-convicted","tag-joao","tag-lourenco","tag-news","tag-pardons","tag-president","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\/187453","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=187453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}