{"id":198615,"date":"2025-05-22T18:21:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T16:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/west-africa-national-media-regulator-suspends-journalist-website-over-defamation-claim\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T18:21:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T16:21:50","slug":"west-africa-national-media-regulator-suspends-journalist-website-over-defamation-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/west-africa-national-media-regulator-suspends-journalist-website-over-defamation-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: National Media Regulator Suspends Journalist, Website Over Defamation Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) expresses concern over the suspension of journalist Toumany Camara and his news website <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presseinvestigation.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.presseinvestigation.com<\/a><\/em> by Guinea&#8217;s media regulator, the Haute Autorit\u00e9 de la Communication (HAC).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">On April 28, 2025, the HAC suspended the news site for three months and withdrew Camara&#8217;s press card for the same duration, barring him from practising journalism until July 28, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"56\">According to the HAC, the sanctions were issued in accordance with Articles 39,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505220063.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) expresses concern over the suspension of journalist Toumany Camara and his news website www.presseinvestigation.com by Guinea&#8217;s media regulator, the Haute Autorit\u00e9 de la Communication (HAC). On April 28, 2025, the HAC suspended the news site for three months and withdrew Camara&#8217;s press card for the same duration, barring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":198616,"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":[1118],"tags":[258,256,8667,7356,1124,7277,4959,6687,257,19873,254,10452,4311,4375],"class_list":["post-198615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-claim","tag-defamation","tag-guinea-news","tag-journalist","tag-media","tag-national","tag-news","tag-regulator","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspends","tag-website","tag-west"],"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\/198615","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=198615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}