{"id":31543,"date":"2012-01-03T11:59:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T11:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=31543"},"modified":"2012-02-01T18:13:01","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T18:13:01","slug":"ivory-coast-hermann-aboa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=31543","title":{"rendered":"Ivory Coast: TV presenter released on bail after five months in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ivorian television presenter Hermann Aboa was\u00a0<a title=\"RSF - TV presenter freed conditionally after being held for five months\" href=\"http:\/\/en.rsf.org\/cote-d-ivoire-tv-presenter-freed-conditionally-30-12-2011,41611.html\" target=\"_blank\">released on bail<\/a> on 30 December after five months in prison. Aboa, a\u00a0presenter with national state-run public broadcaster Radiodiffusion T\u00e9l\u00e9vision Ivoirienne (RTI),\u00a0continues to face prosecution on a range of charges, including threatening the nation\u2019s defences, attacking and conspiring against state authorities, undermining national territorial integrity and attacking public order. Aboa\u2019s lawyer said he is due to be examined on the substance of the charges in the coming days.\u00a0In July the presenter was detained for moderating a TV talk show series, launched during the crisis that followed the disputed November 2010 elections, which lauded former leader Laurent Gbagbo, who\u00a0<a title=\"CPJ - The struggle continues for power and media in Ivory Coast\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cpj.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/the-struggle-continues-for-power-and-media-in-ivor.php\" target=\"_blank\">controlled<\/a>\u00a0the station before he was\u00a0ousted\u00a0in April by forces loyal to his opponent, current president Alassane Ouattara.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ivorian television presenter Hermann Aboa was\u00a0released on bail on 30 December after five months in prison. Aboa, a\u00a0presenter with national state-run public broadcaster Radiodiffusion T\u00e9l\u00e9vision Ivoirienne (RTI),\u00a0continues to face prosecution on a range of charges, including threatening the nation\u2019s defences, attacking and conspiring against state authorities, undermining national territorial integrity and attacking public order. Aboa\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"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":[3129,4136,597,3128,727,4137],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31543"}],"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\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31543"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32608,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31543\/revisions\/32608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}