{"id":612755,"date":"2022-04-19T16:53:52","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T16:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=34c01b858ebf2a8b48d3005fd748a22f"},"modified":"2022-04-19T16:53:52","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T16:53:52","slug":"senegalese-journalist-to-be-tried-for-insulting-police-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/04\/19\/senegalese-journalist-to-be-tried-for-insulting-police-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Senegalese journalist to be tried for insulting police officer"},"content":{"rendered":"News<div class=\"field field-name-field-rsf-chapo field-type-text-long field-label-hidden\"><div class=\"field-items\"><div class=\"field-item even\">Calling for the withdrawal of all charges against Pape Malick Thiam, a TV reporter due to appear in court tomorrow in Dakar on a charge of insulting a police officer, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges those in charge of the Senegalese security forces to prioritise dialogue with journalists amid a surge in threats and attacks against media personnel.<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\"><div class=\"field-items\"><div class=\"field-item even\" property=\"content:encoded\"><p>A reporter for the privately-owned <i>7TV<\/i> channel,<strong> Thiam<\/strong> was arrested during an altercation with a policeman at a court in Dakar on 14 April, when he want to cover a hearing wi<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/news\/senegalese-journalist-be-tried-insulting-police-officer\">RSF - RSS feed<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NewsCalling for the withdrawal of all charges against Pape Malick Thiam, a TV reporter due to appear in court tomorrow in Dakar on a charge of insulting a police officer, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges those in charge of the Senegalese security &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1720,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1720"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612756,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612755\/revisions\/612756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}