Zambian opposition leader \u200bBrian Mundubile was \u200ccharged with treason on Saturday, his \u200blawyer told \u200bReuters.<\/p>\n
“Mr Brian Mundubile and \u2060his running \u200bmate, Mr Makebi \u200bZulu, were both charged with treason and remained \u200bdetained at \u200bLusaka Central Police Station \u200cas \u2060of last night,” lawyer Kambwa Aongola said.<\/p>\n
This follows \u200bhis\u00a0arrest\u00a0\u200bon \u2060Thursday after being questioned \u200bby police “in connection \u200bwith \u2060an alleged offence of treason”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Zambian opposition leader \u200bBrian Mundubile was \u200ccharged with treason on Saturday, his \u200blawyer told \u200bReuters. “Mr Brian Mundubile and \u2060his running \u200bmate, Mr Makebi \u200bZulu, were both charged with treason and remained \u200bdetained at \u200bLusaka Central Police Station \u200cas \u2060of last night,” lawyer Kambwa Aongola said. This follows \u200bhis\u00a0arrest\u00a0\u200bon \u2060Thursday after being questioned \u200bby police […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":6,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","source_name":"Reuters","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2362,33,30],"tags":[5293,394],"class_list":["post-21905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-politics","category-southern-africa","tag-brian-mundubile","tag-zambia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21907,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21905\/revisions\/21907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}