{"id":198987,"date":"2025-05-28T13:24:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T11:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/west-africa-opposition-party-activist-charged-with-publication-of-false-news\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T13:24:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T11:24:48","slug":"west-africa-opposition-party-activist-charged-with-publication-of-false-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/west-africa-opposition-party-activist-charged-with-publication-of-false-news\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: Opposition Party Activist Charged With Publication of False News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) is concerned about the criminal prosecution of Alfred Ababio Kumi, a Ghanaian opposition party activist, over allegations he made on social media regarding purported judicial misconduct.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">Kumi, also known as Adenta Kumi and a former parliamentary aspirant of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), has been charged with <a href=\"https:\/\/mfwa.org\/issues-in-focus\/the-two-laws-surviving-the-repealed-criminal-libel-law-in-ghana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the publication of false news<\/a>, a misdemeanour offence under Section 208 of Ghana&#8217;s Criminal Offences Act that carries a penalty of up to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505280064.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) is concerned about the criminal prosecution of Alfred Ababio Kumi, a Ghanaian opposition party activist, over allegations he made on social media regarding purported judicial misconduct. Kumi, also known as Adenta Kumi and a former parliamentary aspirant of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), has been charged with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":198988,"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":[8956,258,256,7081,7556,4509,257,5675,7024,9720,254,4375],"class_list":["post-198987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-activist","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-charged","tag-false","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-party","tag-publication","tag-south-africa-today","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\/198987","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=198987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}