{"id":458749,"date":"2018-01-26T16:42:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T16:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/01\/26\/gbagbos-son-jailed-for-fake-news\/"},"modified":"2018-01-26T16:42:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T16:42:01","slug":"gbagbos-son-jailed-for-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/01\/26\/gbagbos-son-jailed-for-fake-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Gbagbo\u2019s son jailed for \u2018fake news\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Michel Gbagbo, the son of Ivory Coast’s former president Laurent Gbagbo, has been sentenced to six months in jail and ordered to pay a fine of $950 (\u00a3668) for “complicity in disclosing false news”, his lawyer said.<\/p>\n

It relates to comments Mr Gbagbo made to a news website in May 2016. At the time he claimed “250 people are still in prison” following the country’s political crisis in 2010-11 when his father refused to step down from power and concede defeat by his rival, Alassane Ouattara.<\/p>\n

Michel Gbagbo also said at the time that 300 other people “charged and placed under arrest since 2011” were missing.<\/p>\n

But these claims were today ruled false by the criminal court in Abidjan, his lawyer Rodrigue Dadje confirmed.<\/p>\n

Laurent Despas, the French director of the Koaci.com website which published the interview, was fined $18,950 (\u00a313,339) for spreading false news, the lawyer added.<\/p>\n

Michel Gbagbo’s lawyer has said he will appeal against the sentences.<\/p>\n

Laurent Gbagbo is on trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, accused of crimes against humanity allegedly committed during the 2010-11 political crisis.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Gbagbo’s son jailed for ‘fake news’ appeared first on Starr Fm.<\/p>\n

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Michel Gbagbo, the son of Ivory Coast’s former president Laurent Gbagbo, has been sentenced to six months in jail and ordered to pay a fine of $950 (\u00a3668) for “complicity in disclosing false news”, his lawyer said. It relates to comments Mr Gbagbo made to a news website in May 2016. At the time he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":458750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}