{"id":10988,"date":"2016-11-22T20:56:22","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T20:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=10988&#038;lang=fr"},"modified":"2016-11-24T20:58:33","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T20:58:33","slug":"mos-def-is-leaving-his-home-in-south-africa-after-his-idealistic-world-passport-got-him-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/mos-def-is-leaving-his-home-in-south-africa-after-his-idealistic-world-passport-got-him-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Mos Def is leaving his home in South Africa after his idealistic \u201cworld passport\u201d got him arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"annotatable\">Mos Def\u2019s ideals about a world without borders have been dashed by South African immigration officials. The Department of Home Affairs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dha.gov.za\/index.php\/statements-speeches\/895-statement-by-dg-apleni-on-the-apology-and-departure-of-mos-def\">declared the rapper and actor<\/a> an \u201cundesirable person\u201d on Nov. 22 after he tried to leave the country using a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldservice.org\/docpass.html\">world passport<\/a>, an idealistic travel document issued by a pacifist organization promoting a world without borders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"annotatable\">Mos Def, who was born and raised in Brookyn, NY, and who now goes by Yasiin Bey, was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/world\/articles\/2016-01-15\/south-africa-us-rapper-mos-def-arrested-for-false-passport\">arrested<\/a> in January when he tried to travel to Ethiopia from the Cape Town International Airport using the world passport. Released on bail and due to stand trial, Bey apologized to the Department of Home Affairs, the department said in a statement. The government department accepted his apology, but will no longer allow him the visa-free travel American citizens enjoy to South Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"annotatable\">Read further <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/843687\/rapper-mos-def-is-leaving-south-africa-after-his-arrest-for-traveling-on-a-world-passport\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mos Def\u2019s ideals about a world without borders have been dashed by South African immigration officials. The Department of Home Affairs declared the rapper and actor an \u201cundesirable person\u201d on Nov. 22 after he tried to leave the country using a world passport, an idealistic travel document issued by a pacifist organization promoting a world [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","region-afrique-du-sud-2","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-395","item-theme-documents-d-identite-et-passeports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10989,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10988\/revisions\/10989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}