{"id":7569,"date":"2025-07-08T15:00:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/2025\/07\/08\/senegalese-commentator-detained-under-false-news-claims\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T15:00:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T13:00:37","slug":"senegalese-commentator-detained-under-false-news-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/2025\/07\/08\/senegalese-commentator-detained-under-false-news-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Senegalese Commentator Detained Under &lsquo;False News&rsquo; Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>[CPJ] Dakar &#8212; The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Senegalese authorities to immediately release news commentator Bachir Fofana after a judge ordered on July 2 that Fofana remain in detention until July 9, pending the continuation of his trial. Fofana is charged with publishing false news about the recipient of a vehicle purchase contract for the National Assembly. The government has a recent history of prosecuting journalists for spreading false news.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[CPJ] Dakar &#8212; The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Senegalese authorities to immediately release news commentator Bachir Fofana after a judge ordered on July 2 that Fofana remain in detention until July 9, pending the continuation of his trial. Fofana is charged with publishing false news about the recipient of a vehicle purchase contract &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-7569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-senegal","tag-sunugal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}