{"id":1193017,"date":"2022-08-28T18:07:26","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T18:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/28\/ghanas-press-freedom-ranking-is-a-shame-uk-high-commissioner\/"},"modified":"2022-08-28T18:07:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T18:07:26","slug":"ghanas-press-freedom-ranking-is-a-shame-uk-high-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/28\/ghanas-press-freedom-ranking-is-a-shame-uk-high-commissioner\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana\u2019s press freedom ranking is a shame \u2013 UK High Commissioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\" style=\"line-height: 2; letter-spacing: -0.5px;font-size: 18px;\">\n<p>                        <!--p class=\"ky_saved_articles_link\"><span class=\"ky_saved_articles_hide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"ky_saved_articles_img\" alt=\"Ghana\u2019s press freedom ranking is a shame \u2013 UK High Commissioner\" title=\"Ghana\u2019s press freedom ranking is a shame \u2013 UK High Commissioner\"><\/span> Bookmark<\/p-->\n<p>The British High Commissioner to Ghana has voiced her displeasure with Ghana\u2019s 2022 press freedom ranking.<\/p>\n<p>In the yet-to-be-aired interview on <strong>JoyNews<\/strong>\u2019 <strong>The Probe<\/strong>, on Sunday, Harriet Thompson said Ghana\u2019s press freedom ranking is a shame.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cI think it is really a shame for Ghana. Yes, I do and that is why I think that government\u2019s commitment to media freedom, as I say in conversations that I have had with those representatives, it is important to hold on to that as Ghana\u2019s journalists continue to do the great job that they do,\u201d she stated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1332897907&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true&#038;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Reporters Without Borders in its 2022 Press Freedom Index placed\u00a0Ghana in the 60<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0position\u00a0out of 180 countries globally and 10<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The UK Commissioner, however, noted that the situation could change if journalists in Ghana continue \u201cto do the great job that they do and investigating and putting the word out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked if she thinks people in Ghana are able to express themselves freely, Mrs. Thompson said: \u201cI think on the whole, they are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do believe that commitment to the freedom of the media is strong amongst Ghana\u2019s population and the government,\u201d The High Commissioner added.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, although people have \u201ccome under pressure\u201d for expressing themselves, she believes that \u201cit is really important for those instances to be understood in order for it to be avoided in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Thompson added that issues that lead to attacks on freedom should be looked into noting that the attack on journalists in Ghana is a cause for concern.<\/p>\n<p>The Probe airs on <strong>JoyNews<\/strong> channel at 8:00pm on Sundays.<\/p>\n<p>                <!-- Post Tags --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British High Commissioner to Ghana has voiced her displeasure with Ghana\u2019s 2022 press freedom ranking. In the yet-to-be-aired interview on JoyNews\u2019 The Probe, on Sunday, Harriet Thompson said Ghana\u2019s press freedom ranking is a shame. \u00a0\u201cI think it is really a shame for Ghana. Yes, I do and that is why I think that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1193019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[6774,5843,250,2158,9824,11625,3501],"class_list":["post-1193017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-commissioner","tag-freedom","tag-ghanas","tag-high","tag-press","tag-ranking","tag-shame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}