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Reacting to news that Zimbabwe\u2019s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has signed the Death Penalty\u00a0Abolition Bill into law today, Amnesty International Zimbabwe\u2019s Executive Director, Lucia Masuka,\u00a0said:<\/p>\n
\u201cAmnesty International applauds Zimbabwe\u2019s decision to abolish the death penalty for all crimes, but\u00a0regrets the possibility of its reinstatement during state of emergency under the Defence Act.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is not just great progress for Zimbabwe, it is also a beacon of hope for the…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Reacting to news that Zimbabwe\u2019s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has signed the Death Penalty\u00a0Abolition Bill into law today, Amnesty International Zimbabwe\u2019s Executive Director, Lucia Masuka,\u00a0said: \u201cAmnesty International applauds Zimbabwe\u2019s decision to abolish the death penalty for all crimes, but\u00a0regrets the possibility of its reinstatement during state of emergency under the Defence Act. \u201cThis is not just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[19492,258,256,7292,16996,6974,13203,7077,14193,257,6472,11125,2450,6428,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-187695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-abolish","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bill","tag-circumstances","tag-death","tag-historic","tag-law","tag-moment","tag-news","tag-ordinary","tag-penalty","tag-president","tag-signs","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187695","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=187695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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