{"id":27758,"date":"2011-10-12T14:05:12","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T13:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=27758"},"modified":"2011-10-12T14:53:31","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T13:53:31","slug":"angola-journalist-jailed-for-libel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=27758","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Journalist jailed for libel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Angola\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Angola\" target=\"_blank\">Angolan<\/a> journalist is facing a year <a title=\"AFP: Angolan journalist jailed for libel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5ghk_4mEkDYyIIaoCXhDY4cSlZxWA?docId=CNG.99d0f5b77cb7ee81e6d33adfedf3ba98.331\" target=\"_blank\">in prison<\/a> for libel.\u00a0William Tonet, editor of the newspaper <a title=\"Folha 8 Online\" href=\"http:\/\/folha8online.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Folha 8<\/a>, was accused of libel after he published allegations of corruption among the country&#8217;s military elite. Tonet accused three generals of the Angolan Armed Forces of self-enrichment and power abuse in a 2008 news article. In a court ruling on Monday, the journalist was given\u00a0five days to pay 10 million kwanzas (\u20ac77,000) <a title=\"News 24 - Angolan journalist jailed for libel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/Africa\/News\/Angolan-journalist-jailed-for-libel-20111011\" target=\"_blank\">in damages<\/a>, or face a year in prison. The journalist&#8217;s lawyer, David Mendes, said the government of \u00a0Angolan President,\u00a0Jose dos Santos wants to imprison William Tonet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Angolan journalist is facing a year in prison for libel.\u00a0William Tonet, editor of the newspaper Folha 8, was accused of libel after he published allegations of corruption among the country&#8217;s military elite. Tonet accused three generals of the Angolan Armed Forces of self-enrichment and power abuse in a 2008 news article. In a court [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"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":[2238,202,165,727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27758"}],"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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27758"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27800,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27758\/revisions\/27800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}