{"id":173936,"date":"2024-06-05T19:07:07","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T17:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/west-africa-track-down-and-punish-perpetrators-of-threats-against-journalist-sekou-pendessa\/"},"modified":"2024-06-05T19:07:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T17:07:07","slug":"west-africa-track-down-and-punish-perpetrators-of-threats-against-journalist-sekou-pendessa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/west-africa-track-down-and-punish-perpetrators-of-threats-against-journalist-sekou-pendessa\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: Track Down and Punish Perpetrators of Threats Against Journalist Sekou Pendessa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) condemns the recent threats against journalist S\u00e9kou Jamal Pendessa, and urges the Guinean authorities to identify and punish the perpetrators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"59\">As Secretary General of the Syndicat des professionnels de la presse de Guinee (SSPG), a media professionals&#8217; trade union group, Pendessa has led a number of push-backs against media repression in Guinea, especially under the current military regime. His resolute posture in defence of the media has incurred him&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406050056.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Guinea\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/guinea\/\">Guinea<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) condemns the recent threats against journalist S\u00e9kou Jamal Pendessa, and urges the Guinean authorities to identify and punish the perpetrators. As Secretary General of the Syndicat des professionnels de la presse de Guinee (SSPG), a media professionals&#8217; trade union group, Pendessa has led a number of push-backs against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":173937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1118],"tags":[258,256,1124,7277,257,48704,8330,12377,48703,254,7611,10900,4375],"class_list":["post-173936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-guinea-news","tag-journalist","tag-news","tag-pendessa","tag-perpetrators","tag-punish","tag-sekou","tag-south-africa-today","tag-threats","tag-track","tag-west"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}