{"id":29242,"date":"2011-09-09T02:30:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T06:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=29242"},"modified":"2011-09-09T02:30:49","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T06:30:49","slug":"imc-condems-attack-of-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=29242","title":{"rendered":"IMC condems attack of journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Independent Media Commission, (IMC) wishes to condemn the attacks by two presidential guards on four (4) journalists who were covering the CAF\/African Nation Cup Match between Sierra Leone and Egypt at the National Stadium on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The IMC welcomes the president\u2019s intervention with the institution of a police investigation into the matter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The IMC would, however, call for a broad based investigating committee including the Human Right Commission and other Civil Society groups and with a definite timeline.<\/p>\n<p>The IMC further calls on the Security Forces to recognize the role of Media Practitioners in society when they are on official assignment to keep the nation informed.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<address>J.P.K. Lamin, Executive Secretary, For and behalf of the Ag. Chairman and Commissioners<\/address>\n<address>INDEPENDENT MEDIA COMMISSION, 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Floor, Kissy House, Freetown<\/address>\n<address>221840\/2218.35<\/address>\n<address>076-632-373\/076-724-854<\/address>\n<address>E-mail:info@imc-sl.org<\/address>\n<address><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imc-sl.org\/\">www.imc-sl.org<\/a><\/address>\n<address>7<sup>th<\/sup> September, 2011<\/address>\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 Independent Media Commission, (IMC) wishes to condemn the attacks by two presidential guards on four (4) journalists who were covering the CAF\/African Nation Cup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1221,824,1],"tags":[4490,1990,2683,7131],"class_list":["post-29242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases","category-sports","category-uncategorized","tag-human-rights-commission-sierra-leone","tag-imc","tag-independent-media-commission","tag-journalists-attacked"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29242","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29242\/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=29242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}