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The image<\/em> of riot police flanking the perimeter of the Monrovia Central Prison–with shields drawn and batons in hand–is a visual Liberia hoped it had consigned to the past. It signals not just heightened political tension, but a judiciary and security apparatus caught in the vortex of public scrutiny and political suspicion.<\/p>\n Cllr. Jonathan<\/strong> Fonati Koffa, former Speaker of the House of Representatives, now sits behind bars, charged with serious crimes including arson and attempted murder for his…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The image of riot police flanking the perimeter of the Monrovia Central Prison–with shields drawn and batons in hand–is a visual Liberia hoped it had consigned to the past. It signals not just heightened political tension, but a judiciary and security apparatus caught in the vortex of public scrutiny and political suspicion. Cllr. Jonathan Fonati […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":199911,"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":[1086],"tags":[258,256,6414,23224,6852,47323,4712,1107,257,6916,254,6564],"class_list":["post-199910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrest","tag-disguise","tag-justice","tag-koffas","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trial"],"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\/199910","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=199910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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