{"id":207621,"date":"2025-09-19T18:54:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T16:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-deploys-lawfare-against-the-political-opposition\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T18:54:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T16:54:20","slug":"mozambique-deploys-lawfare-against-the-political-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-deploys-lawfare-against-the-political-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique Deploys Lawfare Against the Political Opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Terrorism charges against the main opposition leader could eliminate FRELIMO&#8217;s key challenger in the next elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The Mozambican Attorney-General&#8217;s Office has indicted leading opposition figure Ven\u00e2ncio Mondlane for instigating and inciting terrorism. The charges relate to his role in post-election protests against the country&#8217;s highly fraudulent 2024 general election results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The 22 July <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cartamz.com\/destaque\/44643\/tensao-pos-eleitoral-crimes-imputados-a-venancio-mondlane-tem-penas-que-variam-de-seis-meses-a-24-anos-de-prisao\/\" rel=\"noopener\">indictment<\/a> carries a sentence of more than 20 years&#8217; imprisonment, and could bar Mondlane from running in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509190334.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>Terrorism charges against the main opposition leader could eliminate FRELIMO&#8217;s key challenger in the next elections. The Mozambican Attorney-General&#8217;s Office has indicted leading opposition figure Ven\u00e2ncio Mondlane for instigating and inciting terrorism. The charges relate to his role in post-election protests against the country&#8217;s highly fraudulent 2024 general election results. The 22 July indictment carries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":207622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670606:363f55d2c77f801abe3b8118e1b706c3:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,13205,52390,4704,682,257,5675,6378,254],"class_list":["post-207621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deploys","tag-lawfare","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-political","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670606:363f55d2c77f801abe3b8118e1b706c3:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207621","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=207621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}