{"id":24068,"date":"2016-03-22T01:23:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T01:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/british-plane-spotters-fined-in-kenya-for-taking\/"},"modified":"2016-03-22T01:23:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T01:23:31","slug":"british-plane-spotters-fined-in-kenya-for-taking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/british-plane-spotters-fined-in-kenya-for-taking\/","title":{"rendered":"British plane spotters fined in Kenya for taking airport photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Four British plane spotters in Kenya have been ordered to pay \u00a31,400 ($2,000) or face a year in jail for trespassing at an airport in Nairobi.}<\/p>\n<p>The four men from Greater Manchester were caught taking pictures at Wilson Airport in the capital and have been in custody for more than a week.<\/p>\n<p>They remain in detention at the police cells at the main international airport until the fine is paid.<\/p>\n<p>The men said officials at the airport had given them permission to film.<\/p>\n<p>But they sparked a security alert after they were spotted from the airport bar.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC&#8217;S Alastair Leithead in Nairobi says in the end they admitted to two charges in court &#8211; of trespassing, and taking pictures of aircraft &#8211; which each carried a fine of \u00a3700.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Swift, whose brother Eddie is one of the arrested men, told the BBC all families were particularly concerned about the four being transferred from police custody to jail.<\/p>\n<p>He had spoken to his brother on the phone who is &#8220;very, very scared&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>A leaked memo from the Kenya Airports Authority last month warned of possible attacks by al-Shabab militants.<\/p>\n<p>The Somalia-based group has been behind several deadly attacks in Kenya in recent years.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-11091 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_88873497_planespotters.jpg\" alt=\"Accused plane spotters in courtImage copyrightThe Star Image caption The plane spotters admitted to trespassing and taking pictures of aircraft\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Four British plane spotters in Kenya have been ordered to pay \u00a31,400 ($2,000) or face a year in jail for trespassing at an airport in Nairobi.} The four men from Greater Manchester were caught taking pictures at Wilson Airport in the capital and have been in custody for more than a week. They remain in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-24068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24068"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=24068"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=24068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}