{"id":46116,"date":"2013-06-28T15:50:37","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T14:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/arrest-barack-obama-says-muslim-lawyers-association-in-south-africa\/46116\/"},"modified":"2013-06-28T15:50:37","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T14:50:37","slug":"arrest-barack-obama-says-muslim-lawyers-association-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/arrest-barack-obama-says-muslim-lawyers-association-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest Barack Obama, says Muslim Lawyers Association in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"area-article-first-block\">\n<div id=\"mod-a-body-first-para\" class=\"mod-economictimesarticletext mod-articletext\">\n<p>JOHANNESBURG: The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Muslim Lawyers\">Muslim Lawyers\u2019 Association<\/a> in South Africa has called for the arrest of US President <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Barack Obama\">Barack Obama<\/a> on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/war crime\">war crime<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/genocide\">genocide<\/a> charges when he visits the country from Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"headline\">The Association has called for Obama\u2019s arrest because they believe he has ordered the deaths of numerous suspects overseas, citing this as \u201creason en<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"mod-a-body-after-first-para\">\n<p>It is one of fifteen civil society organisations that have banded together as the \u2018NO-Bama Coalition\u2019 to object to his first visit to the country as President.<\/p>\n<p>The organisations include various trades unions and student\u2019s associations as well ruling <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/African National Congress\">African National Congress<\/a> tripartite alliance partners \u2014 the South African <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Communist Party\">Communist Party<\/a> and the Congress of South African Trade Unions.<\/p>\n<p>The South African government is undeterred by the planned protests, saying that it might even be good for the country because allowing the protests would show the level of freedom of expression in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(The protests) might have a positive effect. It is a tangible demonstration of the healthy democracy we enjoy,\u201d Clayson Monyela, spokesman for the Ministry of International Relations and Cooperation told the media.<\/p>\n<p>Mbuyiseni Ndlozi, national co-ordinator of the NO-Bama Coalition said, \u201cThe USA under Obama\u2019s leadership has escalated its assault on human rights, militarisation of international relations and continuing guzzling of world resources at the expense of the environment and oppressed peoples of the world\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Other reasons cited by the coalition included allegations of active support and defence of colonial and oppressive regimes by the US and its alleged role in maintaining the underdevelopment of the African continent.<\/p>\n<p>A National Day of Action against Obama\u2019s visit will see a march on June 28, when he is due to arrive.<\/p>\n<p>A demonstration against the University of Johannesburg awarding an honorary doctorate to Obama will take place on Saturday in Soweto<\/p>\n<p>Copyright Economic Times, 2013<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Republished with permission from:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/arrest-barack-obama-says-muslim-lawyers-association-in-south-africa\/5340816?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=arrest-barack-obama-says-muslim-lawyers-association-in-south-africa\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Arrest Barack Obama, says Muslim Lawyers Association in South Africa\">Global Research<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG: The Muslim Lawyers\u2019 Association in South Africa has called for the arrest of US President Barack Obama on war crime and genocide charges when he visits the country from Friday. The Association has called for Obama\u2019s arrest because they believe he has ordered the deaths of numerous suspects overseas, citing this as \u201creason en [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-46116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}