{"id":28230,"date":"2011-10-24T13:37:44","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T12:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=28230"},"modified":"2011-12-05T15:41:38","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T15:41:38","slug":"mauritius-editor-jailed-for-contempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=28230","title":{"rendered":"Mauritius: Editor jailed for contempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A \u00a0<a title=\"Index on Censorship - Mauritius\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship\/tag\/Mauritus\" target=\"_blank\">Mauritian<\/a>\u00a0journalist\u00a0has been jailed for <a title=\"Guardian - Mauritius editor jailed for contempt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/greenslade\/2011\/oct\/24\/press-freedom-mauritius?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fmedia%2Frss+%28Media%29\" target=\"_blank\">contempt of court<\/a>.\u00a0Dharmanand Dooharika, who works for weekly newspaper Samedi Plus,\u00a0was sentenced to three months in prison following the paper&#8217;s coverage of\u00a0a fraud case in August. Dooharika was found guilty of publicly scandalising the Supreme Court and bringing the administration of justice into disrepute. Dooharika was taken ill following the ruling, and <a title=\"RSF - JOURNALIST JAILED AND MEDIA OUTLETS FINED FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT\" href=\"http:\/\/en.rsf.org\/mauritius-journalist-jailed-and-media-21-10-2011,41264.html\" target=\"_blank\">sent to hospital<\/a> under police guard.\u00a0Goindamal Saminata Chetty, head of the firm\u00a0Contact Press\u00a0which owns Samedi Plus, was fined 300,000 rupees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A \u00a0Mauritian\u00a0journalist\u00a0has been jailed for contempt of court.\u00a0Dharmanand Dooharika, who works for weekly newspaper Samedi Plus,\u00a0was sentenced to three months in prison following the paper&#8217;s coverage of\u00a0a fraud case in August. Dooharika was found guilty of publicly scandalising the Supreme Court and bringing the administration of justice into disrepute. Dooharika was taken ill following 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":[890,3920,3114,3919,727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28230"}],"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=28230"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30725,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28230\/revisions\/30725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}