{"id":223540,"date":"2026-02-12T00:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-supreme-court-orders-public-defenders-to-represent-prophet-key-in-contempt-case\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T00:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:09:11","slug":"liberia-supreme-court-orders-public-defenders-to-represent-prophet-key-in-contempt-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-supreme-court-orders-public-defenders-to-represent-prophet-key-in-contempt-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Supreme Court Orders Public Defenders to Represent Prophet Key in Contempt Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\"><strong>MONROVIA &#8212;<\/strong> The Supreme Court of Liberia has ordered the Office of the Public Defender to provide legal representation for Prophet Key, also known as Justin Oldpa Yeazehn, in a contempt of court matter stemming from alleged verbal attacks against the judiciary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"62\">Prophet Key was briefly detained on Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026, after appearing before the Court in response to a citation issued by the Office of the Clerk of the Supreme Court. The citation accuses him of directing sustained and insulting&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602110070.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 &#8212; The Supreme Court of Liberia has ordered the Office of the Public Defender to provide legal representation for Prophet Key, also known as Justin Oldpa Yeazehn, in a contempt of court matter stemming from alleged verbal attacks against the judiciary. Prophet Key was briefly detained on Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026, after appearing before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":223541,"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":[258,256,6683,11454,6185,5101,7274,4712,1107,257,6186,8713,5751,7704,254,9498],"class_list":["post-223540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-case","tag-contempt","tag-court","tag-defenders","tag-key","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-orders","tag-prophet","tag-public","tag-represent","tag-south-africa-today","tag-supreme"],"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\/223540","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=223540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}