{"id":243790,"date":"2026-09-09T09:04:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T07:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-authorities-must-investigate-reported-abduction-and-assault-of-journalist-kananelo-boloetse\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T09:04:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T07:04:34","slug":"lesotho-authorities-must-investigate-reported-abduction-and-assault-of-journalist-kananelo-boloetse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-authorities-must-investigate-reported-abduction-and-assault-of-journalist-kananelo-boloetse\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Authorities Must Investigate Reported Abduction and Assault of Journalist Kananelo Boloetse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Responding to reports that journalist and human rights defender Kananelo Boloetse was abducted on 5 September from his home in Maseru, interrogated about his work, assaulted and threatened with death, Amnesty International&#8217;s Deputy Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, Vongai Chikwanda, said:<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">&#8220;The reported abduction and brutal assault of Kananelo Boloetse is deeply alarming and raises serious concerns for the safety of journalists and human rights defenders in Lesotho.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The reported&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609090027.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to reports that journalist and human rights defender Kananelo Boloetse was abducted on 5 September from his home in Maseru, interrogated about his work, assaulted and threatened with death, Amnesty International&#8217;s Deputy Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, Vongai Chikwanda, said: &#8220;The reported abduction and brutal assault of Kananelo Boloetse is deeply alarming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":243791,"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\/00660766:4485dca53102764a466a4b579bb143cf:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[4306,258,256,11975,7215,55390,8116,7277,55389,4717,1407,257,8136,254],"class_list":["post-243790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-abduction","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-assault","tag-authorities","tag-boloetse","tag-investigate","tag-journalist","tag-kananelo","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-reported","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660766:4485dca53102764a466a4b579bb143cf:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243790","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=243790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}