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The\u00a0Zambian<\/a>\u00a0government\u2019s decision to postpone RightsCon 2026, effectively canceling the summit, raises concerns about the authorities\u2019 commitment to free expression and assembly and about possible\u00a0Chinese<\/a>\u00a0government interference, Human Rights Watch said today. The 14th edition of RightsCon was scheduled to be held in Lusaka, Zambia\u2019s capital, from May 5 to 8, 2026.<\/p>\n In an April 29\u00a0statement<\/a>, the Zambian government said that the postponement was \u201cnecessitated by the need for…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The\u00a0Zambian\u00a0government\u2019s decision to postpone RightsCon 2026, effectively canceling the summit, raises concerns about the authorities\u2019 commitment to free expression and assembly and about possible\u00a0Chinese\u00a0government interference, Human Rights Watch said today. The 14th edition of RightsCon was scheduled to be held in Lusaka, Zambia\u2019s capital, from May 5 to 8, 2026. In an April 29\u00a0statement, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":232124,"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\/00580888:21b0620c5289dc30f025b967fa655a13:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,43894,21945,3575,257,5100,254,5757,5734,881],"class_list":["post-232123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-canceled","tag-effectively","tag-human","tag-news","tag-rights","tag-south-africa-today","tag-summit","tag-technology","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00580888:21b0620c5289dc30f025b967fa655a13:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232123","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=232123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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