{"id":51542,"date":"2024-10-01T15:41:25","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T15:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/tanzania-soldier-prison-officer-among-four-jailed-for-life-over-gang-rape-video\/"},"modified":"2024-10-01T15:37:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T15:37:21","slug":"tanzania-soldier-prison-officer-among-four-jailed-for-life-over-gang-rape-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/tanzania-soldier-prison-officer-among-four-jailed-for-life-over-gang-rape-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania: Soldier, prison officer among four jailed for life over gang rape video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The convicts were identified as Clinton Damas, a soldier with the Tanzania People&#8217;s Defence Force, and Praygod Mushi, a prison officer. The other two convicts are Nickson Jackson and Amin Lema.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the life sentences, the court ordered each of the convicts to pay 1 million Tanzanian shillings ($370) to the victim.<\/p>\n<p>The four were charged with gang rape and sodomy of a girl under the age of 18.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred in May, but the video began circulating on social media in August, prompting widespread condemnation from netizens and human rights groups.<\/p>\n<p>The perpetrators were arrested a few days later and charged in Dodoma, where they pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n<p>Following Monday\u2019s sentencing, defense attorney Godfrey Wasonga stated that he was prepared to appeal if the defendants requested. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are several legal deficiencies in the charge sheet that the court did not consider,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The fifth suspect in the horrific incident, a senior policewoman accused of ordering the attack, is set to face trial later this month.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-75493 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/664e5cd0-7f44-11ef-822c-a50726bfda2e.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"The convicts were identified as Clinton Damas, a soldier with the Tanzania People\u2019s Defence Force, and Praygod Mushi, a prison officer. The other two convicts are Nickson Jackson and Amin Lema.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four men, including a soldier and a prison officer, were sentenced to life imprisonment by a Tanzanian court on Monday, September 30, 2024, over a gang rape incident that went viral on social media a few months ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000075492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[192],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-51542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-wycliffe-nyamasege"],"bylines":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":131}],"contributors":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":131}],"featured_image":{"id":2000075492,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/664e5cd0-7f44-11ef-822c-a50726bfda2e.jpg.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/664e5cd0-7f44-11ef-822c-a50726bfda2e.jpg.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/664e5cd0-7f44-11ef-822c-a50726bfda2e.jpg.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/664e5cd0-7f44-11ef-822c-a50726bfda2e.jpg.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/664e5cd0-7f44-11ef-822c-a50726bfda2e.jpg.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/664e5cd0-7f44-11ef-822c-a50726bfda2e.jpg.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000075492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51542"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=51542"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=51542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}