{"id":199995,"date":"2025-06-12T08:04:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T06:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-rights-activist-highlights-crisis-in-governance\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T08:04:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T06:04:58","slug":"liberia-rights-activist-highlights-crisis-in-governance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-rights-activist-highlights-crisis-in-governance\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Rights Activist Highlights Crisis in Governance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">What was intended as a ceremonial occasion to induct the newly elected leadership of Liberia&#8217;s female legal community took an unexpected and divisive turn, as rights activist Jeremiah S. Swen delivered a scathing political broadside against Liberia&#8217;s democratic institutions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">Speaking at an event hosted by the Association of Female Lawyers of Liberia (AFELL) held at Temple of Justice, in Monrovia, Swen, Founder of the Alliance for Transitional Justice-Liberia, (ATJL) used the moment to condemn what&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506120090.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What was intended as a ceremonial occasion to induct the newly elected leadership of Liberia&#8217;s female legal community took an unexpected and divisive turn, as rights activist Jeremiah S. Swen delivered a scathing political broadside against Liberia&#8217;s democratic institutions. Speaking at an event hosted by the Association of Female Lawyers of Liberia (AFELL) held at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":199996,"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":[1086],"tags":[8956,258,256,3723,6866,8250,4712,1107,257,5100,254],"class_list":["post-199995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-activist","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crisis","tag-governance","tag-highlights","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-rights","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\/199995","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=199995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}