{"id":224600,"date":"2026-02-21T12:27:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T10:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-children-of-visually-impaired-parents-allegedly-arrested-as-street-ban-enforcement-sparks-protest\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T12:27:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T10:27:56","slug":"liberia-children-of-visually-impaired-parents-allegedly-arrested-as-street-ban-enforcement-sparks-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-children-of-visually-impaired-parents-allegedly-arrested-as-street-ban-enforcement-sparks-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Children of Visually Impaired Parents Allegedly Arrested As Street Ban Enforcement Sparks Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">Monrovia \u2014 The usually busy compound of the Zone 4 Police Depot in Barnesville turned into a scene of anguish and defiance on Thursday, February 24, as a group of visually impaired parents gathered under the morning sun, demanding the release of their children who had been taken from the streets days earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The confrontation followed an enforcement operation carried out on February 19 by a joint security team implementing the government&#8217;s nationwide ban on street-selling by minors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"60\">According&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602200398.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monrovia \u2014 The usually busy compound of the Zone 4 Police Depot in Barnesville turned into a scene of anguish and defiance on Thursday, February 24, as a group of visually impaired parents gathered under the morning sun, demanding the release of their children who had been taken from the streets days earlier. The confrontation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":224601,"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":[1086],"tags":[258,256,5128,4304,7185,7371,10019,30603,4712,1107,257,9998,2194,254,9617,7714,31411],"class_list":["post-224600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allegedly","tag-arrested","tag-ban","tag-children","tag-enforcement","tag-impaired","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-parents","tag-protest","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sparks","tag-street","tag-visually"],"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\/224600","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=224600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}