{"id":206424,"date":"2025-09-06T23:06:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T21:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-defense-challenges-judges-jfk-exam-order-insists-on-independent-inquiry-after-nsa-torture-claims-in-capitol-arson-trial\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T23:06:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T21:06:50","slug":"liberia-defense-challenges-judges-jfk-exam-order-insists-on-independent-inquiry-after-nsa-torture-claims-in-capitol-arson-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-defense-challenges-judges-jfk-exam-order-insists-on-independent-inquiry-after-nsa-torture-claims-in-capitol-arson-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Defense Challenges Judge&#8217;s JFK Exam Order, Insists On Independent Inquiry After NSA Torture Claims in Capitol Arson Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">Monrovia \u2014 The Capitol Building arson case has taken a dramatic turn as the defence team representing the accused has rejected a court-ordered medical and psychological examination by the state-run John F. Kennedy Medical Center (JFK), citing serious concerns over the hospital&#8217;s neutrality in the wake of allegations of torture involving the National Security Agency (NSA).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Instead, the defence is now demanding a fully independent, internationally supervised medical evaluation, including&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509050291.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monrovia \u2014 The Capitol Building arson case has taken a dramatic turn as the defence team representing the accused has rejected a court-ordered medical and psychological examination by the state-run John F. Kennedy Medical Center (JFK), citing serious concerns over the hospital&#8217;s neutrality in the wake of allegations of torture involving the National Security Agency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":206425,"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":[258,256,23290,9887,6977,8117,8027,10029,7523,11548,8191,23561,7031,4712,1107,257,8876,7576,254,265,6564],"class_list":["post-206424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arson","tag-capitol","tag-challenges","tag-claims","tag-defense","tag-exam","tag-independent","tag-inquiry","tag-insists","tag-jfk","tag-judges","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-nsa","tag-order","tag-south-africa-today","tag-torture","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\/206424","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=206424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}