{"id":195120,"date":"2025-04-01T16:35:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T14:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/guinea-outcry-in-guinea-as-ex-military-leader-camara-pardoned-by-junta-chief\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T16:35:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T14:35:43","slug":"guinea-outcry-in-guinea-as-ex-military-leader-camara-pardoned-by-junta-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/guinea-outcry-in-guinea-as-ex-military-leader-camara-pardoned-by-junta-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Guinea: Outcry in Guinea As Ex-Military Leader Camara Pardoned By Junta Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\"><em> Guinea&#8217;s ex-dictator Moussa Dadis Camara, jailed for 20 years over a 2009 massacre, has been pardoned for &#8220;health reasons&#8221; by the West African country&#8217;s junta head Mamadi Doumbouya. The decision has prompted angry reactions from victims, their families and human rights groups. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">&#8220;Upon the proposal of the minister of justice, a presidential pardon is granted to Mr Moussa Dadis Camara for health reasons,&#8221; said a decree read out on television by presidential spokesperson General Amara Camara late&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504010015.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Guinea\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/guinea\/\">Guinea<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guinea&#8217;s ex-dictator Moussa Dadis Camara, jailed for 20 years over a 2009 massacre, has been pardoned for &#8220;health reasons&#8221; by the West African country&#8217;s junta head Mamadi Doumbouya. The decision has prompted angry reactions from victims, their families and human rights groups. &#8220;Upon the proposal of the minister of justice, a presidential pardon is granted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":195121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661834:bc2c6f7d6c3897f987c7df678a73b7fd:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1118],"tags":[258,256,44210,6510,36801,4715,1124,28579,7079,257,10912,28519,254],"class_list":["post-195120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-camara","tag-chief","tag-exmilitary","tag-guinea","tag-guinea-news","tag-junta","tag-leader","tag-news","tag-outcry","tag-pardoned","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661834:bc2c6f7d6c3897f987c7df678a73b7fd:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195120","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}