{"id":189042,"date":"2025-01-20T01:43:52","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T23:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-joint-security-calls-etheridges-lawyers-at-night-for-his-immediate-release-amid-torture-allegations\/"},"modified":"2025-01-20T01:43:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T23:43:52","slug":"liberia-joint-security-calls-etheridges-lawyers-at-night-for-his-immediate-release-amid-torture-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-joint-security-calls-etheridges-lawyers-at-night-for-his-immediate-release-amid-torture-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Joint Security Calls Etheridge&#8217;s Lawyers At Night for His Immediate Release Amid Torture Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Monrovia \u2014 The Joint Security has reportedly called Thomas Etheridge&#8217;s lawyer late Thursday night to sign for his immediate release, FrontPage Africa has learned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Etheridge has been in custody since his release from the hospital. He previously accused the security forces of torturing him to extract false statements implicating himself and other high-ranking officials in connection with the Capitol Building fire incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"66\">Etheridge&#8217;s lawyer, Cllr. Jonathan Massaquoi of the International Law&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501160238.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monrovia \u2014 The Joint Security has reportedly called Thomas Etheridge&#8217;s lawyer late Thursday night to sign for his immediate release, FrontPage Africa has learned. Etheridge has been in custody since his release from the hospital. He previously accused the security forces of torturing him to extract false statements implicating himself and other high-ranking officials in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":189043,"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":[1086],"tags":[258,256,8577,6137,50429,6984,8569,4712,1107,257,7589,6011,4586,254,265],"class_list":["post-189042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allegations","tag-calls","tag-etheridges","tag-joint","tag-lawyers","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-night","tag-release","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today","tag-torture"],"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\/189042","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=189042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}