About: http://data.cimple.eu/news-article/cc1a7f594423f4439da0294e8e834ec584a57ba86ae09994174cbf5b     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : schema:NewsArticle, within Data Space : data.cimple.eu associated with source document(s)

AttributesValues
rdf:type
schema:articleBody
  • Malawi security forces fired teargas Tuesday at crowds of protesters as a pro-democracy activist handed himself into police over his call for anti-government demonstrations. The activist, Timothy Mtambo, leads the Human Rights Defenders Coalition, which has been spearheading protests since last year's disputed presidential elections in the. President Peter Mutharika was narrowly re-elected in the May 2019 ballot, but in February the constitutional court annulled the results citing widespread irregularities. Mtambo had been wanted by police following the arrest of fellow activists Gift Trapence and MacDonald Sembereka on Sunday. Around 5,000 supporters gathered outside the police station in the capital Lilongwe in show of solidarity with the man seen as the face of anti-government resistance. "We not going to fight, it is not war. We want to meet our leader so that he listens to our concerns," Mtambo told journalists standing in front of the police station. "You don't manage people by inflicting fear, threatening them, shooting them and teargassing them," he said. Police fired teargas at protestors before whisking Mtambo into the police station, according to an AFP video-journalist at the scene. His alleged offence arises from calls he made last week for fresh protests to force Mutharika to sign a law to allow for new vote after the court ruling. The constitutional court last month nullified the May election results because of irregularities, in particular the "massive" use of correction fluid on tally sheets. It also ordered officials to hold a new presidential election within 150 days. For those election to be organised, the president has to agree to a new bill recently adopted by parliament. Mtambo had warned that five million people could be mobilised to shut down the president's official residence if he refused to sign the new law. The court ruling was the first time a presidential election has been challenged on legal grounds in Malawi since independence from Britain in 1964, and only the second vote result to be cancelled in Africa after the 2017 Kenya presidential vote. str/sn/pma
schema:headline
  • Malawi police fire tear gas as protest leader arrested
schema:mentions
schema:author
schema:datePublished
http://data.cimple...sPoliticalLeaning
http://data.cimple...logy#hasSentiment
http://data.cimple...readability_score
Faceted Search & Find service v1.16.115 as of Oct 09 2023


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3238 as of Jul 16 2024, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-musl), Single-Server Edition (126 GB total memory, 5 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2025 OpenLink Software