{"id":4429,"date":"2012-12-06T11:58:14","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T08:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=4429"},"modified":"2012-12-06T11:58:14","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T08:58:14","slug":"court-frees-monitor-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/court-frees-monitor-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Court frees Monitor journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/Monitor-journalists.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4430\" title=\"Monitor journalists\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/Monitor-journalists.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"249\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The magistrates\u2019 Court in Makindye has freed two journalists of the Daily Monitor, who have been on trial for 2 years over allegations of criminal libel.<\/p>\n<p>Angello Izama and Henry Ochieng were charged in February 2010, over an article that was published by the Sunday Monitor, titled: &#8220;Will the people&#8217;s power defeat President Museveni in the poll?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The article in question discussed the risk of political violence during 2011 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>The article compared President Museveni&#8217;s regime to that of Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos who was deposed in 1986 just a few months before Museveni came to power.<\/p>\n<p>The case has previously been adjourned several times, after prosecution failed to produce witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>Magistrate Flavian Nabakooza has today dismissed the case, declining to grant yet another adjournment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The magistrates\u2019 Court in Makindye has freed two journalists of the Daily Monitor, who have been on trial for 2 years over allegations of criminal libel. Angello Izama and Henry Ochieng were charged in February 2010, over an article that was published by the Sunday Monitor, titled: &#8220;Will the people&#8217;s power defeat President Museveni in the poll?&#8221; The article in question discussed the risk of political violence during 2011 general elections. The article compared President Museveni&#8217;s regime to that of Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos who was deposed in 1986 just a few months before Museveni came to power. The case has previously been adjourned several times, after prosecution failed to produce witnesses. Magistrate Flavian Nabakooza has today dismissed the case, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}