{"id":215062,"date":"2025-11-27T14:17:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T12:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-pul-alarms-over-speakers-threat\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T14:17:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T12:17:51","slug":"liberia-pul-alarms-over-speakers-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-pul-alarms-over-speakers-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: PUL Alarms Over Speaker&#8217;s Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The Press Union of Liberia believes verbal threats by the Speaker of the House of Representatives &#8216;to deal with journalists&#8217; by &#8216;grabbing&#8217; and &#8216;jailing&#8217; them are yet another frightening manifestation of the steadily increasing hostility towards journalists in Liberia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The Union is alarmed by the threats from Speaker Richard Koon, who on Tuesday, 25 November 2025, disparagingly warned journalists covering the House of Representatives against recording communicative exchanges in the Chamber in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511270201.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>The Press Union of Liberia believes verbal threats by the Speaker of the House of Representatives &#8216;to deal with journalists&#8217; by &#8216;grabbing&#8217; and &#8216;jailing&#8217; them are yet another frightening manifestation of the steadily increasing hostility towards journalists in Liberia. The Union is alarmed by the threats from Speaker Richard Koon, who on Tuesday, 25 November [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":215063,"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":[258,256,35662,4712,1107,257,12827,254,14589,6791],"class_list":["post-215062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alarms","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-pul","tag-south-africa-today","tag-speakers","tag-threat"],"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\/215062","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=215062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}