{"id":27852,"date":"2011-10-13T15:07:46","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T14:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=27852"},"modified":"2011-10-13T15:07:46","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T14:07:46","slug":"nigeria-police-arrest-six-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=27852","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Police arrest six journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"CPJ - Nigeria police arrest six journalists\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cpj.org\/2011\/10\/nigeria-police-arrest-six-journalists.php\" target=\"_blank\">Six journalists<\/a>\u00a0and one other staff have been arrested following raids on a newspaper office in <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Nigeria\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/nigeria\" target=\"_blank\">Nigeria<\/a>. Detectives stormed the Lagos-based premises of independent daily newspaper <a title=\"The Nation Online\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thenationonlineng.net\/2011\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Nation<\/a> on Tuesday, arresting <a title=\"Greenslade blog - Seven arrested at Nigerian newspaper\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/greenslade\/2011\/oct\/13\/press-freedom-nigeria\" target=\"_blank\">seven<\/a>. The arrests are believed to be linked to the publication of a <a title=\"IFEX - Four newspaper editors arrested\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ifex.org\/nigeria\/2011\/10\/12\/the_nation_arrests\/\" target=\"_blank\">private letter<\/a> on 4 October from former head of state Olusegun Obasanjo to President Goodluck Jonathan, suggesting Jonathan replace CEOs of several government agencies.\u00a0Obasanjo accused the newspaper of publishing the letter with a forgery of his signature.\u00a0The journalists are expected to appear in court tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six journalists\u00a0and one other staff have been arrested following raids on a newspaper office in Nigeria. Detectives stormed the Lagos-based premises of independent daily newspaper The Nation on Tuesday, arresting seven. The arrests are believed to be linked to the publication of a private letter on 4 October from former head of state Olusegun Obasanjo [&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":[3896,2028,237,727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27852"}],"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=27852"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27856,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27852\/revisions\/27856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}