{"id":192233,"date":"2025-02-25T18:22:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T16:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-hstvs-mhlanga-complains-about-inhumane-treatment-by-police-officers-state-opposes-bail-says-he-will-interfere-with-witnesses-who-are-his-juniors-at-work\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T18:22:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T16:22:44","slug":"zimbabwe-hstvs-mhlanga-complains-about-inhumane-treatment-by-police-officers-state-opposes-bail-says-he-will-interfere-with-witnesses-who-are-his-juniors-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-hstvs-mhlanga-complains-about-inhumane-treatment-by-police-officers-state-opposes-bail-says-he-will-interfere-with-witnesses-who-are-his-juniors-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: HSTV&#8217;s Mhlanga Complains About Inhumane Treatment By Police Officers &#8211; State Opposes Bail Says He Will Interfere With Witnesses Who Are His Juniors At Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">The lawyer representing Alpha Media Holdings (AMH ) journalist, Blessed Mhlanga who is being accused of transmission of information that incites violence or causes damage to property complained that the police have been unprofessional in the manner in which they handled his client&#8217;s matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Mhlanga was arrested on Monday after he presented himself at Harare Central Police Station in the company of his lawyer Chris Mhike. He is charged under Section 164 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform)&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502250413.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lawyer representing Alpha Media Holdings (AMH ) journalist, Blessed Mhlanga who is being accused of transmission of information that incites violence or causes damage to property complained that the police have been unprofessional in the manner in which they handled his client&#8217;s matter. Mhlanga was arrested on Monday after he presented himself at Harare [&hellip;]<\/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":[258,256,7900,8998,50720,27333,43251,28464,50721,257,6749,10494,662,254,6017,12416,12677,6100,4686,421],"class_list":["post-192233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bail","tag-complains","tag-hstvs","tag-inhumane","tag-interfere","tag-juniors","tag-mhlanga","tag-news","tag-officers","tag-opposes","tag-police","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state","tag-treatment","tag-witnesses","tag-work","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192233","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=192233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192233\/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=192233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}