{"id":224898,"date":"2026-02-24T13:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T11:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-rights-activist-detained-in-nampula\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T13:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T11:01:11","slug":"mozambique-rights-activist-detained-in-nampula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-rights-activist-detained-in-nampula\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Rights Activist Detained in Nampula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Maputo \u2014 Mozambique&#8217;s Network of Human Rights Defenders (RMDDH) has condemned the detention of a human rights activist, Joaquim Pachoneia, in the northern city of Nampula.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">According to an RMDDH statement, Pachoneia&#8217;s detention was &#8220;illegal and arbitrary&#8217;. He was detained without any arrest warrant or a formal accusation, which means that &#8220;the Mozambican Police (PRM) acted against human rights.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\">&#8220;It was possible to ascertain that the activist is being held at the Provincial Police Command n&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602240029.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 Mozambique&#8217;s Network of Human Rights Defenders (RMDDH) has condemned the detention of a human rights activist, Joaquim Pachoneia, in the northern city of Nampula. According to an RMDDH statement, Pachoneia&#8217;s detention was &#8220;illegal and arbitrary&#8217;. He was detained without any arrest warrant or a formal accusation, which means that &#8220;the Mozambican Police (PRM) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":224899,"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":[8956,258,256,3707,4704,682,2788,257,5100,254],"class_list":["post-224898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-activist","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-detained","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-nampula","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\/224898","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=224898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}