{"id":208896,"date":"2025-10-04T07:28:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T05:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-rights-association-files-criminal-complaint-against-frelimo-deputy\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T07:28:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T05:28:50","slug":"mozambique-rights-association-files-criminal-complaint-against-frelimo-deputy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-rights-association-files-criminal-complaint-against-frelimo-deputy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Rights Association Files Criminal Complaint Against Frelimo Deputy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"58\">Maputo \u2014 The Human Rights Network Association, a Mozambican NGO, has filed a criminal complaint against Eg\u00eddio Vaz, a deputy of the ruling Frelimo party in the Assembly of the Republic, the country&#8217;s parliament, for incitement to crime and public advocacy of hatred and violence &#8211; but Vaz claims that such accusations are false, and are based on a forgery<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">The complaint is based on a Facebook post, allegedly written by Vaz, in which he mocked the murder, on 19 October 2024, of the prominent&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510030035.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>Maputo \u2014 The Human Rights Network Association, a Mozambican NGO, has filed a criminal complaint against Eg\u00eddio Vaz, a deputy of the ruling Frelimo party in the Assembly of the Republic, the country&#8217;s parliament, for incitement to crime and public advocacy of hatred and violence &#8211; but Vaz claims that such accusations are false, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":208897,"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":[654],"tags":[258,256,5735,8389,9322,6012,14573,1573,4704,682,257,5100,254],"class_list":["post-208896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-association","tag-complaint","tag-criminal","tag-deputy","tag-files","tag-frelimo","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-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\/208896","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=208896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}