{"id":229651,"date":"2026-04-06T14:18:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-president-joao-lourenco-grants-pardon-to-310-prisoners\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T14:18:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:18:46","slug":"angola-president-joao-lourenco-grants-pardon-to-310-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-president-joao-lourenco-grants-pardon-to-310-prisoners\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: President Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o Grants Pardon to 310 Prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Luanda \u2014 Angolan President Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o on Monday granted pardon to 310 citizens serving custodial sentences in several provinces, in reference to the celebration of the 4th of April, the day of Peace and National Reconciliation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The presidential decree made public on Monday states that the measure aims to give convicted prisoners an opportunity for social and family reintegration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The pardon takes into account that the celebration of the 4th of April constitutes a moment of special&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604060234.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luanda \u2014 Angolan President Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o on Monday granted pardon to 310 citizens serving custodial sentences in several provinces, in reference to the celebration of the 4th of April, the day of Peace and National Reconciliation. The presidential decree made public on Monday states that the measure aims to give convicted prisoners an opportunity for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":229652,"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":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,10875,14019,14020,257,20936,2450,6444,254],"class_list":["post-229651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-grants","tag-joao","tag-lourenco","tag-news","tag-pardon","tag-president","tag-prisoners","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\/229651","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=229651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}