{"id":240491,"date":"2026-08-06T19:52:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T17:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-former-deputy-commander-general-convicted-for-defamation\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T19:52:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T17:52:06","slug":"mozambique-former-deputy-commander-general-convicted-for-defamation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-former-deputy-commander-general-convicted-for-defamation\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Former Deputy Commander-General Convicted for Defamation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Maputo \u2014 Mozambique&#8217;s Supreme Court has convicted the former Deputy Commander-General of the police (PRM), Fernando Tsucana, on two cases of defamation against a prominent activist F\u00e1tima Mimbire and the mayor of the central city of Quelimane, Manuel de Ara\u00fajo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">The case dates back to the year of 2023, following memorial marches for the late dissident rapper Edson da Luz, known by his stage name Azagaia. Reading from an official statement while addressing the demonstrators, Tsucana accused&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608060054.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maputo \u2014 Mozambique&#8217;s Supreme Court has convicted the former Deputy Commander-General of the police (PRM), Fernando Tsucana, on two cases of defamation against a prominent activist F\u00e1tima Mimbire and the mayor of the central city of Quelimane, Manuel de Ara\u00fajo. The case dates back to the year of 2023, following memorial marches for the late [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,55077,11361,7356,6012,4704,682,257,254],"class_list":["post-240491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-commandergeneral","tag-convicted","tag-defamation","tag-deputy","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240491","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=240491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}