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The $18 million in damages was the result of a unanimous decision by an eight-member jury in Essex County Superior Court in New Jersey, finding Mr Agyapong liable for defamation against Mr Anas.<\/p>\n
A United States court has awarded Ghanaian investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas $18 million (\u00a314 million) in damages, after a jury said he was defamed by former Ghanaian MP Kennedy Agyapong.<\/p>\n
The case stemmed from comments Mr Agyapong made about Mr Anas after his BBC investigation in 2018 that…<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The $18 million in damages was the result of a unanimous decision by an eight-member jury in Essex County Superior Court in New Jersey, finding Mr Agyapong liable for defamation against Mr Anas. A United States court has awarded Ghanaian investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas $18 million (\u00a314 million) in damages, after a jury said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":194173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[24398,258,256,22441,6526,6683,6185,14692,4509,9510,6954,7277,7627,257,254,2282],"class_list":["post-194172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-18m","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-anas","tag-awards","tag-case","tag-court","tag-exmp","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghanaian","tag-investigative","tag-journalist","tag-libel","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/194172","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=194172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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