{"id":617493,"date":"2022-04-22T07:50:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T07:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=5664296698d1ba8e9fd5c5ad6a4d19cf"},"modified":"2022-04-22T07:50:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T07:50:10","slug":"german-court-to-try-man-for-role-in-rsf-correspondents-murder-in-gambia-in-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/04\/22\/german-court-to-try-man-for-role-in-rsf-correspondents-murder-in-gambia-in-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"German court to try man for role in RSF correspondent\u2019s murder in Gambia in 2004"},"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\">An alleged member of the hit squad that murdered the correspondent of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) in Gambia 18 years ago is due to go on trial in Germany next week. RSF welcomes this decisive step in the quest for justice and hopes the trial will serve as an example for the prosecution of all those who murdered journalists under former dictator Yahya Jammeh.<\/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>The trial of Bai Lowe, a 46-year-old Gambian who was arrested in Hanover in March 2021, will open in the northern city of Celle on 25 April.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/news\/german-court-try-man-role-rsf-correspondents-murder-gambia-2004\">RSF - RSS feed<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NewsAn alleged member of the hit squad that murdered the correspondent of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) in Gambia 18 years ago is due to go on trial in Germany next week. RSF welcomes this decisive step in the quest for justice and hopes the trial wi&#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\/617493"}],"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=617493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":617494,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617493\/revisions\/617494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}