{"id":211636,"date":"2025-10-28T20:25:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-police-block-protest-by-textile-workers-in-lesotho\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T20:25:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:25:35","slug":"lesotho-police-block-protest-by-textile-workers-in-lesotho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-police-block-protest-by-textile-workers-in-lesotho\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Police Block Protest By Textile Workers in Lesotho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\"><em> Unions accuse police of acting unlawfully by denying permission for a protest march against job losses <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lesotho trade unions have accused the police of unlawfully denying them the right to protest.<\/li>\n<li>The unions had planned to march on Friday and petition the prime minister over the job losses in the textile sector.<\/li>\n<li>Permission for the march was denied by police, citing various administrative requirements not being met.<\/li>\n<li>The unions have appealed to the police minister and threatened court action,&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510280362.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>Unions accuse police of acting unlawfully by denying permission for a protest march against job losses Lesotho trade unions have accused the police of unlawfully denying them the right to protest. The unions had planned to march on Friday and petition the prime minister over the job losses in the textile sector. Permission for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":211637,"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":[258,256,9056,4717,1407,257,662,2194,254,10501,6498],"class_list":["post-211636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-block","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-police","tag-protest","tag-south-africa-today","tag-textile","tag-workers"],"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\/211636","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=211636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}