{"id":13338,"date":"2010-09-07T15:45:31","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T19:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=13338"},"modified":"2010-09-07T15:45:31","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T19:45:31","slug":"arbitrary-use-of-office-journalist-complains-magistrate-shyllon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=13338","title":{"rendered":"Arbitrary Use of Office\u2026 Journalist complains Magistrate Shyllon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone has received a complaint of abuse of office by the Magistrate of Court 3.\u00a0 <em>(Photo: Arthwah Maddie of For di People newspaper)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to a letter of complaint forwarded to the Human Rights Commission, it was alleged that Magistrate Shyllon arbitrarily subjected journalist Arthwah Maddie to three hours detention for publishing inaccurate information on a matter under investigation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Findings say the journalist who reports for \u2018For Di People\u2019 newspaper, Arthwah Maddie, covered a rape case trial, reported the story, but gave the wrong age of a party to the case.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Upon publication of the story, Magistrate Shyllon, we are told, demanded an explanation from the journalist for the anomaly in the story he published.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That explanation given was unconvincing, he therefore ordered police to put the journalist behind bars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Questions many now asked is whether magistrates have the power to punish for contempt as in the case of the story reported by For di People reporter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Investigation has confirmed that magistrates generally don\u2019t have right to punish for contempt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That the right to punish for contempt rests on the shoulders of judges and not magistrates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although the Human Rights Commission is yet to summons Magistrate Shyllon for a reply to complaint against him, sources say the journalist intends complaining about him to the office of Chief Justice.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone has received a complaint of abuse of office by the Magistrate of Court 3.\u00a0 (Photo: Arthwah Maddie of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,1],"tags":[4896,4897],"class_list":["post-13338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-uncategorized","tag-arthwah-maddie","tag-for-di-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}