{"id":230566,"date":"2026-04-17T14:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-opposition-flagbearer-aspirant-sentenced-to-four-years-imprisonment\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T14:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:45:07","slug":"sierra-leone-opposition-flagbearer-aspirant-sentenced-to-four-years-imprisonment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-opposition-flagbearer-aspirant-sentenced-to-four-years-imprisonment\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone: Opposition Flagbearer Aspirant Sentenced to Four Years Imprisonment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"63\">On April 14, 2026, Zainab Sheriff, Chairperson of the <a href=\"https:\/\/mfwa.org\/country-highlights\/sierra-leone-opposition-flagbearer-aspirant-denied-bail-for-fourth-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wi Duti civic movement<\/a> and a flagbearer aspirant of the opposition All People&#8217;s Congress (APC), was <a href=\"https:\/\/sierraloaded.sl\/news\/court-sentence-zainab-sheriff-prison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sentenced<\/a> to four years and two months&#8217; imprisonment on two counts, incitement and threatening language, under the Public Order Act 1965. The sentences, are to run concurrently, meaning she will serve a total of four years in prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">Sheriff, who is also a model and a musician, was <a href=\"https:\/\/mfwa.org\/country-highlights\/sierra-leone-opposition-flagbearer-aspirant-denied-bail-for-fourth-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">declared wanted<\/a> on February 13, 2026, and arrested on February 20&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604170294.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 14, 2026, Zainab Sheriff, Chairperson of the Wi Duti civic movement and a flagbearer aspirant of the opposition All People&#8217;s Congress (APC), was sentenced to four years and two months&#8217; imprisonment on two counts, incitement and threatening language, under the Public Order Act 1965. The sentences, are to run concurrently, meaning she will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":230567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681208:463903b1ce25204a26e1c6c26adf9163:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[258,256,8453,42368,6788,6572,257,5675,6787,6571,1135,254,5114],"class_list":["post-230566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aspirant","tag-flagbearer","tag-imprisonment","tag-leone","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-sentenced","tag-sierra","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-years"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681208:463903b1ce25204a26e1c6c26adf9163:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230566","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=230566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}