{"id":7735,"date":"2013-05-10T05:43:42","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T05:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/liberia-journalists-protest-with-black-front\/"},"modified":"2013-05-10T05:42:28","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T05:42:28","slug":"liberia-journalists-protest-with-black-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/liberia-journalists-protest-with-black-front\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia journalists protest with black front pages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Newspapers in Liberia have printed black front pages after a government official was accused of threatening journalists.}}<\/p>\n<p>The director of the presidential security service reportedly told a journalist: &#8220;Be careful, because you have your pens and we have our guns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The security chief, Othello Warrick, later issued a statement saying he has no intention to endanger the lives of any journalists. The local journalist association known as the Press Union of Liberia says it is &#8220;outraged and alarmed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Radio and TV stations also are protesting against the government by suspending broadcasts for two hours daily beginning Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Liberia&#8217;s information minister says the West African country has done everything possible to ensure press freedom and freedom of speech.<\/p>\n<p>AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Newspapers in Liberia have printed black front pages after a government official was accused of threatening journalists.}} The director of the presidential security service reportedly told a journalist: &#8220;Be careful, because you have your pens and we have our guns.&#8221; The security chief, Othello Warrick, later issued a statement saying he has no intention to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-7735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7735","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7735"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=7735"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=7735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}