{"id":228410,"date":"2026-03-25T01:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T23:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-judicial-intimidation-against-journalists-leaders\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T01:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T23:45:10","slug":"cote-divoire-judicial-intimidation-against-journalists-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-judicial-intimidation-against-journalists-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: Judicial Intimidation Against Journalists&#8217; Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">This summons, issued without clear grounds and targeting a leading trade union figure, constitutes unacceptable pressure and a clear attempt to intimidate the entire journalistic community in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire. The IFJ and FAJ also express their solidarity with Bertin N&#8217;Guessan, President of the UNJCI Board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The IFJ and FAJ recall that trade union freedoms and freedom of expression are guaranteed under international law, including ILO Conventions and the African Charter on Human and Peoples&#8217;&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603240047.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summons, issued without clear grounds and targeting a leading trade union figure, constitutes unacceptable pressure and a clear attempt to intimidate the entire journalistic community in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire. The IFJ and FAJ also express their solidarity with Bertin N&#8217;Guessan, President of the UNJCI Board. The IFJ and FAJ recall that trade union freedoms and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":228411,"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":[1087],"tags":[258,256,5958,6183,6555,5959,7612,1218,1654,9667,4381,257,254],"class_list":["post-228410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-intimidation","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-journalists","tag-judicial","tag-leaders","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/228410","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=228410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}