{"id":40569,"date":"2026-07-25T08:58:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T06:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=40569"},"modified":"2026-07-25T08:58:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T06:58:05","slug":"guinea-bissaus-imprisoned-opposition-leader-allowed-to-travel-for-medical-treatment","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/guinea-bissaus-imprisoned-opposition-leader-allowed-to-travel-for-medical-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Guinea-Bissau&#8217;s imprisoned opposition leader allowed to travel for medical treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guinea-Bissau&#8217;s military government has allowed opposition leader Domingos Simoes Pereira to leave prison and travel to Portugal for medical treatment, his \u200cfamily told <em>Reuters<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pereira, the leader of the revolutionary PAIGC party and former Prime Minister, was moved back to prison earlier this month following a decision by the West African country&#8217;s military court.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The junta that \u2060seized power in Guinea-Bissau in a coup last year had released Pereira from prison in February but kept him under house arrest on suspicion of economic crimes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Military leaders now accuse him of playing a role in an alleged coup attempt in October 2025. His family reject those allegations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They said earlier this month that \u200cno \u2060trial date had been set yet and voiced concern for his health and safety.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The West African bloc Economic Community of West African States urged Guinea-Bissau&#8217;s government late on Monday to unconditionally release all detained political \u2060figures including Pereira.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Following international pressure my uncle was &#8216;conditionally&#8217; released by the military junta and he is on his way to \u2060Portugal for medical reasons,&#8221; his family representative, Italma Simoes Pereira, said late on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Portuguese news agency \u2060<em>Lusa<\/em> reported on Friday that Pereira had arrived in the capital Lisbon in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":39507,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-40569","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Guinea-Bissau's military government has allowed opposition leader Domingos Simoes Pereira to leave prison","published_date":"2026-07-25 08:08:29","news_description":"Guinea-Bissau's military government has allowed opposition leader Domingos Simoes Pereira to leave prison","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40570,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40569\/revisions\/40570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=40569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}