{"id":200198,"date":"2025-06-15T14:02:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T12:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-suspect-in-journalist-assault-case-denied-bail\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T14:02:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T12:02:49","slug":"ghana-suspect-in-journalist-assault-case-denied-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-suspect-in-journalist-assault-case-denied-bail\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Suspect in Journalist Assault Case Denied Bail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The Accra Circuit Court has remanded into police custody Theophilus Kpakpo Thompson for his alleged role in an assault on Latif Iddrisu, a journalist with Accra-based JoyNews.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Theophilus Thompson, a supporter of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), <a href=\"https:\/\/mfwa.org\/country-highlights\/ghana-police-arrest-suspect-assault-joynews-journalist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was arrested on June 7, 2025, by the Greater Accra Regional Police Command at James Town<\/a>, a suburb of Accra.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">On May 27, 2025, Latif Iddrisu was covering developments following the arrest of the NPP&#8217;s Ashanti Regional Chairman, Bernard Antwi&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506120240.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 Accra Circuit Court has remanded into police custody Theophilus Kpakpo Thompson for his alleged role in an assault on Latif Iddrisu, a journalist with Accra-based JoyNews. Theophilus Thompson, a supporter of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), was arrested on June 7, 2025, by the Greater Accra Regional Police Command at James Town, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":200199,"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":[258,256,11975,7900,6683,7634,4508,4509,7277,257,254,6550],"class_list":["post-200198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-assault","tag-bail","tag-case","tag-denied","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-journalist","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspect"],"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\/200198","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=200198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}