{"id":28043,"date":"2022-07-31T20:48:24","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T20:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/rights-activist-namiwa-abducted-in-lilongwe"},"modified":"2022-07-31T21:07:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T21:07:38","slug":"rights-activist-namiwa-abducted-in-lilongwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/rights-activist-namiwa-abducted-in-lilongwe","title":{"rendered":"Rights activist Namiwa abducted in Lilongwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>CDEDI Executive Director Sylvester Namiwa has been abducted at Area 3 in Lilongwe this afternoon, hours before he was expected to lead anti-government demonstrations in the capital city.<\/p>\n<p>Communications Officer for CDEDI, Edwin Mauluka, has confirmed and has said he was with Namiwa during the incident which has happened minutes after Namiwa held a press conference to express his organisation\u2019s preparedness for anti-government demonstrations slated for tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we were driving home from the press briefing, another vehicle stopped in front of us and bouncers pulled Namiwa out of our vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNamiwa was beaten and then bundled into the the other car and the abductors drove away,\u201d said Mauluka, adding that the vehicle the abductors used has no number plate. The organisation has since reported the matter at Area 3 Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, CDEDI has released a statement saying that the abduction has not come as a surprise since Namiwa has on several occasions this week been pestered by the authorities from Area 30 Police Headquarters in Lilongwe and the Lilongwe District Council, to attend some meetings whose agenda items were not clearly stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFurthermore, Mr. Namiwa\u2019s kidnapping has reminded all the well-meaning Malawians about how ruthlessness and barbaric the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) is, and has brought back the old memories of darkness, kidnapping, killing and detention without trial,\u201d the organisation has said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\">Malawi<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. CDEDI Executive Director Sylvester Namiwa has been abducted at Area 3 in Lilongwe this afternoon, hours before he was expected to lead anti-government demonstrations in the capital city. Communications Officer for CDEDI, Edwin Mauluka, has confirmed and has said he was with Namiwa during the incident which has happened minutes after Namiwa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":28042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,25,8],"tags":[233,371,234,554,4755,545],"class_list":["post-28043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-featured","category-homepage-english","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-malawi","tag-protests","tag-slyvetser-namiwa","tag-violence"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rights activist Namiwa abducted in Lilongwe - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"CDEDI Executive Director Sylvester Namiwa has been abducted at Area 3 in Lilongwe this afternoon, hours before he was ex ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/rights-activist-namiwa-abducted-in-lilongwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rights activist Namiwa abducted in Lilongwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"CDEDI Executive Director Sylvester Namiwa has been abducted at Area 3 in Lilongwe this afternoon, hours before he was ex ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/rights-activist-namiwa-abducted-in-lilongwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-07-31T20:48:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-07-31T21:07:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_22-62e6eef2461e8.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/rights-activist-namiwa-abducted-in-lilongwe#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/rights-activist-namiwa-abducted-in-lilongwe\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Rights activist Namiwa abducted in Lilongwe\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-07-31T20:48:24+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-07-31T21:07:38+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/rights-activist-namiwa-abducted-in-lilongwe\"},\"wordCount\":241,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/rights-activist-namiwa-abducted-in-lilongwe#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_22-62e6eef2461e8.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Malawi\",\"protests\",\"Slyvetser Namiwa\",\"violence\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"Featured\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/rights-activist-namiwa-abducted-in-lilongwe#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/rights-activist-namiwa-abducted-in-lilongwe\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/rights-activist-namiwa-abducted-in-lilongwe\",\"name\":\"Rights activist Namiwa abducted in Lilongwe - 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