{"id":6624,"date":"2013-03-19T04:48:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T04:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/zimbabwe-police-reject-court-order-to-release\/"},"modified":"2013-03-19T04:49:02","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T04:49:02","slug":"zimbabwe-police-reject-court-order-to-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/zimbabwe-police-reject-court-order-to-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Police Reject Court Order to Release Human Rights lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Zimbabwe&#8217;s police have defied a court order to release a prominent human rights lawyer detained on Sunday, legal groups have said.}}<\/p>\n<p>Beatrice Mtetwa&#8217;s continued detention showed the need to overhaul the police force ahead of elections, they said.<\/p>\n<p>She was arrested with four officials from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai&#8217;s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in the capital Harare.<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabweans voted on a constitution on Saturday to usher in political reforms.<\/p>\n<p>If approved, it will pave the way for presidential and parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n<p>No date has been set for the elections, but they are expected to be held in July.<\/p>\n<p>{BBC}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Zimbabwe&#8217;s police have defied a court order to release a prominent human rights lawyer detained on Sunday, legal groups have said.}} Beatrice Mtetwa&#8217;s continued detention showed the need to overhaul the police force ahead of elections, they said. She was arrested with four officials from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai&#8217;s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-6624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6624","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6624"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=6624"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=6624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}