{"id":204390,"date":"2025-08-10T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T14:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-abducted-ugandan-student-jailed-over-anti-museveni-tiktok-video\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T16:02:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T14:02:00","slug":"ghana-abducted-ugandan-student-jailed-over-anti-museveni-tiktok-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-abducted-ugandan-student-jailed-over-anti-museveni-tiktok-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: &#8216;Abducted&#8217; Ugandan Student Jailed Over Anti-Museveni Tiktok Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">A Ugandan university student who mysteriously went missing two months ago after posting a TikTok video that harshly criticised President Yoweri Museveni&#8217;s leadership has been jailed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Elson Tumwine disappeared on June 8 &#8211; sparking accusations from opposition figures and activists that he had been abducted and illegally detained by military agents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Following an outcry over his disappearance, he was then reportedly left at a police station in Entebbe in mid-July and was subsequently charged with&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508080542.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Ugandan university student who mysteriously went missing two months ago after posting a TikTok video that harshly criticised President Yoweri Museveni&#8217;s leadership has been jailed. Elson Tumwine disappeared on June 8 &#8211; sparking accusations from opposition figures and activists that he had been abducted and illegally detained by military agents. Following an outcry over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":204391,"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":[4507],"tags":[3271,258,256,52074,4508,4509,5696,257,254,11431,33857,6337,8066],"class_list":["post-204390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-abducted","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-antimuseveni","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-jailed","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-student","tag-tiktok","tag-ugandan","tag-video"],"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\/204390","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=204390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}