{"id":25628,"date":"2011-08-16T13:34:31","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T12:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=25628"},"modified":"2011-08-16T13:34:31","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T12:34:31","slug":"ghana-journalists-assaulted-by-angered-pastors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=25628","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Journalists assaulted by angered pastors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three pastors allegedly assaulted three journalists and a panellist in Accra, <a title=\"Index on Censorship: Ghana\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a>\u00a0on 8 August. The three pastors <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifex.org\/ghana\/2011\/08\/11\/hotfm_attacked\/\">were angered<\/a> by comments made during a broadcast of Nya Asem Hwe, a local current affairs programme on radio station Hot FM. Reverend Bishop Daniel Obinim, Kofi Akweitey, and Kingsley Baah\u00a0were angered by their exclusion from the broadcast, which involved a discussion about a sex scandal involving Obinim and the wife of another pastor. According to reports, the pastors &#8220;angrily stormed&#8221; the station&#8217;s studios and assaulted the hosts of the programme, along with other staff members. The men were\u00a0released on bail on 9 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three pastors allegedly assaulted three journalists and a panellist in Accra, Ghana\u00a0on 8 August. The three pastors were angered by comments made during a broadcast of Nya Asem Hwe, a local current affairs programme on radio station Hot FM. Reverend Bishop Daniel Obinim, Kofi Akweitey, and Kingsley Baah\u00a0were angered by their exclusion from the broadcast, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[1849,3659,3658,727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25632,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25628\/revisions\/25632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}