{"id":202459,"date":"2025-07-15T03:01:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T01:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-lipholo-battles-sedition-charges\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T03:01:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T01:01:53","slug":"lesotho-lipholo-battles-sedition-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-lipholo-battles-sedition-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Lipholo Battles Sedition Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"6\"><em>&#8230;slams Magistrate Letsika for &#8220;unlawful&#8221; remand<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">EMBATTLED Basotho Covenant Movement (BCM) leader, Reverend T\u0161epo Lipholo, is not backing down in his bid for freedom as he has now escalated the fight to the High Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Dr Lipholo has filed two separate applications in the High Court to secure his release from custody, where he has been detained since last Friday following his appearance before the Maseru Magistrates&#8217; Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The first application, filed on Monday, challenges the legality of his&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507140871.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;slams Magistrate Letsika for &#8220;unlawful&#8221; remand EMBATTLED Basotho Covenant Movement (BCM) leader, Reverend T\u0161epo Lipholo, is not backing down in his bid for freedom as he has now escalated the fight to the High Court. Dr Lipholo has filed two separate applications in the High Court to secure his release from custody, where he has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":202460,"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":[1406],"tags":[258,256,10981,7578,4717,1407,50650,257,28537,254],"class_list":["post-202459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-battles","tag-charges","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-lipholo","tag-news","tag-sedition","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\/202459","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=202459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}