{"id":242454,"date":"2026-08-28T08:30:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T06:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambian-opposition-leader-in-police-custody-state-media\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T08:30:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T06:30:34","slug":"zambian-opposition-leader-in-police-custody-state-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambian-opposition-leader-in-police-custody-state-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambian Opposition Leader in Police Custody &#8211; State Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\"><em>Zambia&#8217;s national broadcaster reports that Brian Mundubile, who wanted to challenge this month&#8217;s presidential election results, and his running mate have surrendered to police and are being interviewed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\"><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/zambia\/t-68124411\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Zambia<\/a>&#8216;s opposition leader and presidential election runner-up Brian Mundubile was in police custody and being questioned, state broadcaster ZNBC reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">This comes two weeks after <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/zambia-after-the-polls-a-test-for-democracy-in-africa\/a-78509362\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a disputed but largely peaceful presidential election<\/a>, where incumbent Hakainde Hichilema was declared&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608280086.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zambia&#8217;s national broadcaster reports that Brian Mundubile, who wanted to challenge this month&#8217;s presidential election results, and his running mate have surrendered to police and are being interviewed. Zambia&#8216;s opposition leader and presidential election runner-up Brian Mundubile was in police custody and being questioned, state broadcaster ZNBC reported on Thursday. This comes two weeks after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":242455,"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\/00690256:4ee9e7ee05b43bbe65f47c030c8a2967:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,11828,7079,4959,257,5675,662,254,6017,881,4396],"class_list":["post-242454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-custody","tag-leader","tag-media","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-police","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambian"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00690256:4ee9e7ee05b43bbe65f47c030c8a2967:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242454","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=242454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}