{"id":229125,"date":"2026-03-31T13:54:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-victims-and-advocates-angry-as-government-stays-silent-over-bribery-allegations-in-countrys-biggest-human-trafficking-case-as-suspects-release-date-nears\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T13:54:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:54:57","slug":"liberia-victims-and-advocates-angry-as-government-stays-silent-over-bribery-allegations-in-countrys-biggest-human-trafficking-case-as-suspects-release-date-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-victims-and-advocates-angry-as-government-stays-silent-over-bribery-allegations-in-countrys-biggest-human-trafficking-case-as-suspects-release-date-nears\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Victims and Advocates Angry As Government Stays Silent Over Bribery Allegations in Country&#8217;s Biggest Human Trafficking Case As Suspects&#8217; Release Date Nears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\">Summary:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Liberia&#8217;s government has been silent after revelations that victims accused public officials of taking bribes to protect human traffickers in the country&#8217;s biggest trafficking case to date.<\/li>\n<li>Eleven suspects in the case with more than 50 victims, will be eligible for bail on April 12 if prosecutors fail to move the case forward.<\/li>\n<li>Victims expressed outrage as advocates warned the case reveals deep corruption in the judicial system and risks further undermining trust in the country&#8217;s rule of&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603310321.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>Summary: Liberia&#8217;s government has been silent after revelations that victims accused public officials of taking bribes to protect human traffickers in the country&#8217;s biggest trafficking case to date. Eleven suspects in the case with more than 50 victims, will be eligible for bail on April 12 if prosecutors fail to move the case forward. Victims [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":229126,"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":[12303,258,256,8577,9676,8645,7673,6683,7216,6144,6427,3575,4712,1107,6145,257,6011,7616,254,20979,4360,6615,8402],"class_list":["post-229125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-advocates","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allegations","tag-angry","tag-biggest","tag-bribery","tag-case","tag-countrys","tag-date","tag-government","tag-human","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-nears","tag-news","tag-release","tag-silent","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stays","tag-suspects","tag-trafficking","tag-victims"],"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\/229125","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=229125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}