{"id":193620,"date":"2025-03-15T19:12:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T17:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-police-fire-on-opposition-parade\/"},"modified":"2025-03-15T19:12:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T17:12:35","slug":"mozambique-police-fire-on-opposition-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-police-fire-on-opposition-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique &#8211; Police Fire On Opposition Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\">Johannesburg \u2014 <em>Ensure Accountability; Adopt Effective Reforms for Policing Protests<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/africa\/mozambique\" rel=\"noopener\">Mozambique<\/a> police fired on a peaceful opposition parade on March 5, 2025, injuring at least 16 people, including 2 children, Human Rights Watch said today. Hundreds of people sang, cheered, and danced in the parade, led by the former presidential candidate Venancio Mondlane, in the capital, Maputo, before being attacked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"63\">The parade, involving a convoy of some six vehicles, had moved without incident for about&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503130038.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>Johannesburg \u2014 Ensure Accountability; Adopt Effective Reforms for Policing Protests Mozambique police fired on a peaceful opposition parade on March 5, 2025, injuring at least 16 people, including 2 children, Human Rights Watch said today. Hundreds of people sang, cheered, and danced in the parade, led by the former presidential candidate Venancio Mondlane, in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":193621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,6600,4704,682,257,5675,6750,662,254],"class_list":["post-193620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-fire","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-parade","tag-police","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/193620","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=193620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}