{"id":9295,"date":"2013-08-18T13:49:23","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T13:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9295"},"modified":"2013-08-18T13:49:23","modified_gmt":"2013-08-18T13:49:23","slug":"sa-police-illegally-tap-journalists-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9295","title":{"rendered":"SA police illegally tap journalists&#8217; phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/phone_tapping.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9296\" alt=\"phone_tapping\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/phone_tapping-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/phone_tapping-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/phone_tapping.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Police have finalised the investigation into crime intelligence officers\u00a0accused of duping a judge to illegally bug the phones of former police\u00a0chief Bheki Cele and two Sunday Times journalists, the newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former KwaZulu-Natal police spy boss Maj-Gen Deena Moodley and covert\u00a0intelligence collection officials Colonel Dumisani Zulu and Captain Bongani\u00a0Cele are suspected of inserting the three mobile numbers under false\u00a0names into a legitimate interception order, the paper reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The order, granted by Judge Joshua Khumalo on December 6, 2010,\u00a0authorised\u00a0police to record &#8220;real time&#8221; calls, gain access to all text messages, and\u00a0use GPS co-ordinates to pinpoint the location of phone users.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">National police commissioner Riah Phiyega&#8217;s spokesman Solomon Makgale\u00a0told the\u00a0publication that police had finalised the criminal investigation into the\u00a0illegal interception of the cellphones belonging to the two employees of the newspaper\u00a0and the former national commissioner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We believe that there is prima-facie evidence against the three SAPS\u00a0members who were involved. It is now up to the prosecuting authority to\u00a0prosecute or not,&#8221; he was quoted. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have finalised the investigation into crime intelligence officers\u00a0accused of duping a judge to illegally bug the phones of former police\u00a0chief Bheki Cele and two Sunday Times journalists, the newspaper reported. Former KwaZulu-Natal police spy boss Maj-Gen Deena Moodley and covert\u00a0intelligence collection officials Colonel Dumisani Zulu and Captain Bongani\u00a0Cele are suspected of inserting the three &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9295\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SA police illegally tap journalists&#8217; phones&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[101,5243,5242,4430,3986,5241],"class_list":["post-9295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-bheki-cele","tag-bongani-cele","tag-deena-moodley","tag-illegal","tag-phone-tapping","tag-sundaty-times"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/phone_tapping.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9297,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9295\/revisions\/9297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}