{"id":206938,"date":"2025-09-12T18:35:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-times-editor-wrongfully-arrested-admits-anti-corruption-agency\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T18:35:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:35:01","slug":"lesotho-times-editor-wrongfully-arrested-admits-anti-corruption-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-times-editor-wrongfully-arrested-admits-anti-corruption-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho Times Editor Wrongfully Arrested, Admits Anti-Corruption Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\"><em> The Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offences accused Mohalenyane Phakela of posing as an officer to obtain documents <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lesotho Times editor Mohalenyane Phakela was arrested on 29 August and held overnight in a freezing police cell after the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offences (DCEO) accused him of posing as one of its officers to obtain documents for a corruption story.<\/li>\n<li>The DCEO admitted on 8 September there was no evidence and dropped the case, but Phakela says officials never&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509120279.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>The Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offences accused Mohalenyane Phakela of posing as an officer to obtain documents Lesotho Times editor Mohalenyane Phakela was arrested on 29 August and held overnight in a freezing police cell after the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offences (DCEO) accused him of posing as one of its officers to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":206939,"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":[7988,258,256,5981,10365,4304,10561,4717,1407,257,254,6592,29150],"class_list":["post-206938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-admits","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agency","tag-anticorruption","tag-arrested","tag-editor","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-times","tag-wrongfully"],"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\/206938","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=206938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}