{"id":15448,"date":"2019-04-15T13:07:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T13:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mfwa.org\/?post_type=publication&#038;p=15448"},"modified":"2026-08-18T12:07:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:07:26","slug":"freedom-of-expression-monitor-january-march-2019","status":"publish","type":"reports","link":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/reports\/freedom-of-expression-monitor-january-march-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom of Expression Monitor January-March 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This edition of the West Africa Free Expression Monitor covers the period January-March, 2019 and recorded 42 violations in nine countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Physical attacks on journalists and media houses (14) and arrest\/detention (10) were the dominant types of violations recorded. There was one incident of killing with a journalist as the victim while a radio station was shut down in Nigeria. Fifteen violations were recorded in Nigeria, the highest in the region during the period under review, followed by Liberia with seven.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">State actors, namely security agents and state officials perpetrated 14 and 10 violations, respectively, accounting for some 57% of the violations recorded. Individuals perpetrated nine violations while political party affiliates carried out five.<\/p>\n<p>Kindly click here to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfwa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/FOE-Monitor-January-March-2019-2705.pdf\">access<\/a> the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfwa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/FOE-Monitor-January-March-2019-2705.pdf\">full report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15447,"template":"","publication-type":[191],"report-category":[753],"report-type":[],"class_list":["post-15448","reports","type-reports","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","publication-type-reports","report-category-freedom-of-expression-digital-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports\/15448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reports"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication-type?post=15448"},{"taxonomy":"report-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/report-category?post=15448"},{"taxonomy":"report-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/report-type?post=15448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}