Un journaliste travaillant avec le quotidien\u00a0Daily Graphic<\/i>, le journal au plus grand tirage national, a \u00e9t\u00e9 condamn\u00e9 \u00e0 une amende de Ghc 5000 (\u00e0 peu pr\u00e8s $1200) pour publication d\u2019une interview jug\u00e9e outrageuse \u00e0 la Haute Cour de Justice d\u2019Accra.<\/p>\n
Le juge qui a rendu la sentence le 21 Mars 2017, a aussi condamn\u00e9 Akrasi Sarpong, l\u2019ancien Pr\u00e9sident de l\u2019agence nationale anti-drogue, Narcotics Control Board (NACOB), qui a accord\u00e9 l\u2019interview, \u00e0 une peine de deux de prison avec sursis.<\/span><\/p>\n Dans ladite interview, Sarpong a exprim\u00e9 sa pr\u00e9occupation \u00e0 propos d\u2019une r\u00e9cente d\u00e9cision de la Haute Cour de Justice \u00e0 accorder une lib\u00e9ration sous caution \u00e0 deux suspects trafiquants de drogues. Sarpong a d\u00e9cri\u00e9 la d\u00e9cision de la cour comme regrettable, \u00e9tant donn\u00e9 le fait que Chief Suny Ikechukwu Benjy Ekeet Eleke Chukwu aurait abus\u00e9 d\u2019une lib\u00e9ration sous caution au Br\u00e9sil.<\/span><\/p>\n Eke and Chukwu ont \u00e9t\u00e9 arr\u00eat\u00e9s et d\u00e9tenus en 2013 pour des pr\u00e9tendues tentatives de\u00a0passer en contrebande de la Bolivie au Ghana 281,604 grammes de coca\u00efnes liquides d\u2019une valeur marchande de plus 125.5 Millions de dollars am\u00e9ricain.<\/span><\/p>\n Les avocats des suspects ont d\u00e9pos\u00e9 une plainte contre Sarpong et le journaliste (dont le nom n\u2019a pas \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9), selon lesquels la publication \u00e9tait pr\u00e9judiciable au cas et outrageux \u00e0 la Haute Cour de Justice.<\/span><\/p>\n Le juge pr\u00e9sidant la s\u00e9ance, Charles Edward Ekow Baiden, a rendu sa d\u00e9cision, en disant que le commentaire de Sarpong portait atteinte \u00e0 l\u2019autorit\u00e9 de la Cour qui a accord\u00e9 une caution aux suspects. L\u2019ancien patron du NACOB a \u00e9t\u00e9 par cons\u00e9quent condamn\u00e9 \u00e0 deux mois d\u2019emprisonnement avec sursis assorti d\u2019un engagement de bonne conduite, tandis que le journaliste a \u00e9cop\u00e9 d\u2019une amende de Ghc 5000, et deux mois d\u2019emprisonnement en cas de d\u00e9faut.<\/span><\/p>\n La MFWA demande aux journalistes de faire preuve de discr\u00e9tion\u00a0dans le reportage des affaires devant les tribunaux. Nous croyons que l\u2019amende impos\u00e9e au journaliste est exorbitante.\u00a0Par cons\u00e9quent,\u00a0la MFWA lance un appel aux tribunaux d\u2019\u00eatre\u00a0cl\u00e9ments dans leurs d\u00e9cisions de sorte que cela ne conduise \u00a0\u00e0 l\u2019autocensure de la part des journalistes et des m\u00e9dias en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Un journaliste travaillant avec le quotidien\u00a0Daily Graphic, le journal au plus grand tirage national, a \u00e9t\u00e9 condamn\u00e9 \u00e0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,227],"tags":[],"country":[243],"staff-position":[],"opportunity-category":[],"ppma_author":[513],"class_list":["post-9792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-free-expression-and-the-law-fr","country-ghana-fr"],"authors":[{"term_id":513,"user_id":2,"is_guest":0,"slug":"vivian","display_name":"Vivian Affoah","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ddf6c5c2ef2f35c978196ce314f9b81dba2ec548b12806a3acbe02e2360d7e63?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9792"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=9792"},{"taxonomy":"staff-position","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff-position?post=9792"},{"taxonomy":"opportunity-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opportunity-category?post=9792"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfwa.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=9792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}