{"id":195926,"date":"2008-06-04T20:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T01:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/04\/zimbabwe-tsvangirai-arrested-then-released-and-ngos-targeted\/"},"modified":"2008-06-04T20:39:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T01:39:00","slug":"zimbabwe-tsvangirai-arrested-then-released-and-ngos-targeted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/04\/zimbabwe-tsvangirai-arrested-then-released-and-ngos-targeted\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Arrested, then Released and NGOs Targeted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/05\/world\/africa\/05zimbabwe.html?partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss\">Morgan   Tsvangirai was stopped at a road block by Zimbabwean security forces<\/a>, and held for 8 hours <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idUKJAT00367920080605\">before being released<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He had been charged with, &#8220;drawing a big crowd&#8221;&#8230;I&#8217;m not joking here.<\/p>\n<p>So we clearly have an official policy of disruption and intimidation of his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the <a href=\"http:\/\/iht.com\/articles\/2008\/06\/04\/africa\/04zimbabwe.php\">government has ordered CARE and other NGOs to cease operations<\/a>, likely for 2 reasons:  They don&#8217;t want witnesses, and if the government is the only entity allowed to supply aid, it becomes easier to use this aid as a weapon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morgan Tsvangirai was stopped at a road block by Zimbabwean security forces, and held for 8 hours before being released. He had been charged with, &#8220;drawing a big crowd&#8221;&#8230;I&#8217;m not joking here. So we clearly have an official policy of disruption and intimidation of his campaign. Additionally, the government has ordered CARE and other NGOs &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,971,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-civil-rights","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}