{"id":28169,"date":"2011-10-20T13:24:03","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T12:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=28169"},"modified":"2011-12-05T15:42:26","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T15:42:26","slug":"senegal-opposition-activist-charged-for-libelling-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=28169","title":{"rendered":"Senegal: Opposition activist charged for libelling President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a title=\"IFEX - Opposition activist charged for libeling President Wade\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ifex.org\/senegal\/2011\/10\/19\/seck_charged\/\">opposition activist<\/a> is facing five years in prison for libelling President\u00a0Abdoulaye Wade in <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Senegal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Senegal\" target=\"_blank\">Senegal<\/a>.\u00a0Malick Noel Seck, General Secretary for the Socialist Convergence Youth, a movement of the Senegalese Socialists Party,\u00a0is facing three counts of libelling the head of state, contempt of court and issuing death threats, following his appearance in court last week. The prosecutor is said to have demanded a five-year prison term for Seck.\u00a0The charges follow Seck&#8217;s petition in April to\u00a0Senegal&#8217;s constitutional court not to accept\u00a0the candidacy of President Wade for the 2012 elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An opposition activist is facing five years in prison for libelling President\u00a0Abdoulaye Wade in Senegal.\u00a0Malick Noel Seck, General Secretary for the Socialist Convergence Youth, a movement of the Senegalese Socialists Party,\u00a0is facing three counts of libelling the head of state, contempt of court and issuing death threats, following his appearance in court last week. The [&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":[540,584,585],"tags":[165,3913,7362],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28169"}],"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=28169"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28171,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28169\/revisions\/28171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}