{"id":174379,"date":"2024-06-12T19:24:43","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T17:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-ex-sierra-leone-rebel-commander-sues-advocates-for-wrongful-prosecution\/"},"modified":"2024-06-12T19:24:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T17:24:43","slug":"sierra-leone-ex-sierra-leone-rebel-commander-sues-advocates-for-wrongful-prosecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-ex-sierra-leone-rebel-commander-sues-advocates-for-wrongful-prosecution\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone: Ex-Sierra Leone Rebel Commander Sues Advocates for Wrongful Prosecution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The Civil Law Court in Monrovia is set to begin hearings on June 15 regarding a US$50 million lawsuit filed by Gibril Massaquoi against Global Justice and Research Project (GJRP) and Civitas Maxima (CM) for alleged malicious prosecution and wrongful actions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">Massaquoi, a former commander of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebel group in Sierra Leone that operated in that country from 1990 to 2002, is seeking US$20 million in punitive damages and US$30 million in general damages from the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406120326.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Civil Law Court in Monrovia is set to begin hearings on June 15 regarding a US$50 million lawsuit filed by Gibril Massaquoi against Global Justice and Research Project (GJRP) and Civitas Maxima (CM) for alleged malicious prosecution and wrongful actions. Massaquoi, a former commander of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebel group in Sierra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":174380,"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":[1109],"tags":[12303,258,256,6771,47355,6572,257,4545,9320,6571,1135,254,11600,43224],"class_list":["post-174379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-advocates","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-commander","tag-exsierra","tag-leone","tag-news","tag-prosecution","tag-rebel","tag-sierra","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sues","tag-wrongful"],"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\/174379","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=174379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}