{"id":53284,"date":"2018-08-09T15:48:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T13:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/08\/09\/zimbabwe-forced-return-of-opposition-figure-gravely-concerning-says-un\/"},"modified":"2018-08-09T15:48:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T13:48:10","slug":"zimbabwe-forced-return-of-opposition-figure-gravely-concerning-says-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=53284","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: forced return of opposition figure \u2018gravely concerning\u2019 says UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former finance minister and senior MDC politician Tendai Biti taken into custody after being denied asylum in ZambiaFears are growing for the safety of a senior Zimbabwean opposition politician after he was refused asylum in neighbouring Zambia and sent back to his own country.The UN said it was gravely concerned that Tendai Biti, a former finance minister and senior figure in the Movement for Democratic Change, was forcibly returned to Zimbabwe, where police have taken him into custody. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/aug\/09\/zimbabwe-forced-return-of-opposition-figure-gravely-concerning-says-un\" target=\"_blank\">Zimbabwe: forced return of opposition figure \u2018gravely concerning\u2019 says UN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former finance minister and senior MDC politician Tendai Biti taken into custody after being denied asylum in ZambiaFears are growing for the safety of a senior Zimbabwean opposition politician after he was refused asylum in neighbouring Zambia and sent back to his own country.The UN said it was gravely concerned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}