{"id":232842,"date":"2026-05-10T03:00:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T01:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-no-kenya-hate-speech-suspect-bare-sahara-ahmed-not-freed-immediately-after-arrest-despite-viral-claims\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T03:00:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T01:00:53","slug":"kenya-no-kenya-hate-speech-suspect-bare-sahara-ahmed-not-freed-immediately-after-arrest-despite-viral-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-no-kenya-hate-speech-suspect-bare-sahara-ahmed-not-freed-immediately-after-arrest-despite-viral-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: No, Kenya Hate Speech Suspect Bare Sahara Ahmed Not Freed Immediately After Arrest, Despite Viral Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\"><em>No, Kenya hate speech suspect Bare Sahara Ahmed not freed immediately after arrest, despite viral claims <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\"><strong>IN SHORT:<\/strong> Posts on social media falsely claim that Bare Sahara Ahmed, accused of threatening national cohesion in Kenya, was released soon after her arrest. But authorities say she has remained in custody, appeared in court and is still under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Numerous Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fuata.nyuki.wa.kungu\/posts\/pfbid0MRvY4KoQbmCqHEyJg81U3UswowchixvkTAcuyLefKbgCTNuTRTc12T92kaM9yYLhl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posts<\/a> claim Kenyan authorities released aspiring politician Bare Sahara Ahmed, accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4T0Ko-DnhKk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hate speech<\/a>, shortly after her&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605080508.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, Kenya hate speech suspect Bare Sahara Ahmed not freed immediately after arrest, despite viral claims IN SHORT: Posts on social media falsely claim that Bare Sahara Ahmed, accused of threatening national cohesion in Kenya, was released soon after her arrest. But authorities say she has remained in custody, appeared in court and is still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":232843,"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":[250],"tags":[258,256,7783,6414,19936,8117,9536,11715,9836,4688,430,257,11395,254,8769,6550,13080],"class_list":["post-232842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahmed","tag-arrest","tag-bare","tag-claims","tag-freed","tag-hate","tag-immediately","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-sahara","tag-south-africa-today","tag-speech","tag-suspect","tag-viral"],"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\/232842","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}