{"id":59710,"date":"2018-01-26T15:23:13","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T13:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=59710"},"modified":"2018-01-26T15:23:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T13:23:13","slug":"mwiza-chavura-granted-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/01\/26\/mwiza-chavura-granted-bail\/","title":{"rendered":"Mwiza Chavura granted bail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The magistrates\u2019 court in Lilongwe on Friday granted bail to artist Mwiza Chavura on the condition that he pays K50,000 and two sureties of K200,000 non-cash.<\/p>\n<p>He has been granted bail on consideration that the case is a misdemeanor. Chavura is also expected to be reporting to Blantyre Police every Thursday until the case ends.<\/p>\n<p>The artist was arrested last Friday after surrendering himself to Blantyre Police. Chavura released a song titled Ndidzakupanga rape, advocating for rape.<\/p>\n<p>He has been charged with producing obscene materials, contrary to Section 179 (1) (a) of the Penal Code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The magistrates\u2019 court in Lilongwe on Friday granted bail to artist Mwiza Chavura on the condition that he pays K50,000 and two sureties of K200,000 non-cash. He has been granted bail on consideration that the case is a misdemeanor. Chavura is also expected to be reporting to Blantyre Police every Thursday until the case ends. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":59538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59711,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59710\/revisions\/59711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}