{"id":197218,"date":"2025-05-01T23:49:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T21:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-mozambican-security-forces-used-reckless-and-unnecessary-force-to-quell-poll-protests-amnesty-report\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T23:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T21:49:12","slug":"mozambique-mozambican-security-forces-used-reckless-and-unnecessary-force-to-quell-poll-protests-amnesty-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-mozambican-security-forces-used-reckless-and-unnecessary-force-to-quell-poll-protests-amnesty-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Mozambican Security Forces Used &#8216;Reckless and Unnecessary Force&#8217; to Quell Poll Protests &#8211; &#8211; Amnesty Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\"><em>In a new report, Amnesty International has exposed the scale of human rights violations that unfolded in Mozambique following its 2024 election.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">In a new report, Amnesty International has exposed the scale of human rights violations that unfolded in Mozambique following its 2024 election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">On 21 October 2024, regions of Mozambique were gripped by violence as the country&#8217;s security forces responded with force to mostly peaceful protesters challenging the result of the 9 October elections&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505010390.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>In a new report, Amnesty International has exposed the scale of human rights violations that unfolded in Mozambique following its 2024 election. In a new report, Amnesty International has exposed the scale of human rights violations that unfolded in Mozambique following its 2024 election. On 21 October 2024, regions of Mozambique were gripped by violence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":197219,"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":[258,256,3023,4383,5097,7751,4704,682,257,7517,5253,35503,13114,5144,4586,254,33337],"class_list":["post-197218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-amnesty","tag-force","tag-forces","tag-mozambican","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-poll","tag-protests","tag-quell","tag-reckless","tag-report","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unnecessary"],"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\/197218","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=197218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}