{"id":28431,"date":"2023-07-31T21:01:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T19:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2023\/07\/31\/senegals-sonko-supporters-claim-legal-charges-are-politically-motivated\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T21:01:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T19:01:41","slug":"senegals-sonko-supporters-claim-legal-charges-are-politically-motivated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2023\/07\/31\/senegals-sonko-supporters-claim-legal-charges-are-politically-motivated\/","title":{"rendered":"Senegal&rsquo;s Sonko supporters claim legal charges are &lsquo;politically motivated&rsquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Senegal&rsquo;s public prosecutor on Saturday announced seven new charges against opposition figure Ousmane Sonko, and on Monday formally charged him with\u00a0fomenting insurrection. \u00ab\u00a0Mr Sonko&rsquo;s supporters had called for protests against his arrest on Friday, but it seems so far relatively quiet,\u00a0\u00bb says FRANCE 24&rsquo;s Sira Thierij, reporting from Dakar, Senegal. Even so, riot police were stationed around the capital on Monday. \u00ab\u00a0His supporters believe the charges are politically motivated,\u00a0\u00bb Thierij added.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senegal&rsquo;s public prosecutor on Saturday announced seven new charges against opposition figure Ousmane Sonko, and on Monday formally charged him with\u00a0fomenting insurrection. \u00ab\u00a0Mr Sonko&rsquo;s supporters had called for protests against his arrest on Friday, but it seems so far relatively quiet,\u00a0\u00bb says FRANCE 24&rsquo;s Sira Thierij, reporting from Dakar, Senegal. Even so, riot police were &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-28431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}