{"id":426362,"date":"2011-05-18T13:48:36","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T13:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/18\/police-detains-and-allegedly-attacks-radio-journalist\/"},"modified":"2011-05-18T13:48:36","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T13:48:36","slug":"police-detains-and-allegedly-attacks-radio-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/18\/police-detains-and-allegedly-attacks-radio-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Detains and Allegedly Attacks Radio Journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"37.6942639164\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediafound.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Media Foundation for West Africa<\/a> (Accra)<\/p>\n<p>18 May 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Franklin Doloque, a correspondent of Truth FM, a privately-owned Monrovia-based radio station, was on May 12, 2011 arrested and detained by the police in Nimba, a county in the north-central part of Liberia, for four hours for allegedly challenging the police.<\/p>\n<p>Before his detention at the Ganta Police Station, Doloque was also allegedly assaulted by the police officers.<\/p>\n<p>The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)\u2019s correspondent reported that Doloque met his ordeal at J. W. Pearson Public School, one of the centres of the ongoing West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The MFWA correspondent said the reporter had gone to inquire about pregnant candidates at the school who had been denied the opportunity to write the exams against a directive by the country\u2019s educational authorities for female pregnant students to write the exams.<\/p>\n<p>According to Doloque, he was made to apologise by writing an apology letter to the police officer on duty before being released.<\/p>\n<p>When MFWA\u2019s correspondent contacted the police, they confirmed detaining the reporter for arguing with a police officer, but denied assaulting him.<\/p>\n<p>In another development, armed robbers on the night of May 12 broke into the offices of privately owned Informer newspaper and made away with three computers and a television set.<\/p>\n<p>Although investigations have yet to be completed, the management of the newspaper suspects sabotage. D. Kaiheneh Sengbe, the managing editor of the newspaper, wondered why attackers singled out only the Informer\u2019s office for attack in a building complex housing ten other offices.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Visit link:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201105180860.html\" title=\"Police Detains and Allegedly Attacks Radio Journalist\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Police Detains and Allegedly Attacks Radio Journalist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Media Foundation for West Africa (Accra) 18 May 2011 Franklin Doloque, a correspondent of Truth FM, a privately-owned Monrovia-based radio station, was on May 12, 2011 arrested and detained by the police in Nimba, a county in the north-central part of Liberia, for four hours for allegedly challenging the police. Before his detention at the Ganta Police Station, Doloque was also allegedly assaulted by the police officers. The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)\u2019s correspondent reported that Doloque met his ordeal at J. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-426362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Police Detains and Allegedly Attacks Radio Journalist - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/18\/police-detains-and-allegedly-attacks-radio-journalist\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Police Detains and Allegedly Attacks Radio Journalist - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Media Foundation for West Africa (Accra) 18 May 2011 Franklin Doloque, a correspondent of Truth FM, a privately-owned Monrovia-based radio station, was on May 12, 2011 arrested and detained by the police in Nimba, a county in the north-central part of Liberia, for four hours for allegedly challenging the police. 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