{"id":11169,"date":"2024-12-04T13:51:28","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T13:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=11169"},"modified":"2024-12-04T13:54:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T13:54:06","slug":"defamation-court-remands-human-rights-lawyer-farotimi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2024\/12\/04\/defamation-court-remands-human-rights-lawyer-farotimi\/","title":{"rendered":"Defamation: Court Remands Human Rights Lawyer Farotimi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A human rights lawyer, Dele Farotimi, has been remanded in a correctional centre by a Chief Magistrates\u2019 Court in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The rights activist was arraigned over alleged defamation of character contained in his new book, \u2018Nigeria and its Criminal Justice System\u2019 where he alleged, among others, that a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Afe Babalola, had compromised the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>The police prosecutor, Samson Osubu, preferred a 16-count charge against\u00a0 Farotimi to which he pleaded not guilty,<\/p>\n<p>The presiding Chief Magistrate, Abayomi Adeosun, consequently adjourned the matter till December 10, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Farotimi was arrested in Lagos on Monday by policemen from Ekiti State and was taken to Ado Ekiti.<\/p>\n<p>Adeosun said, \u201cThe defendant should file a formal application for bail. The matter is adjourned till Tuesday, December 10, 2024. The defendant is hereby ordered remanded at the Correctional Centre, Ado Ekiti.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Ekiti State Commissioner of Police, Adeniran Akinwale, had said on Tuesday that Farotimi was arrested over alleged cyberbullying and defamation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A human rights lawyer, Dele Farotimi, has been remanded in a correctional centre by a Chief Magistrates\u2019 Court in Ado<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11172,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11169\/revisions\/11172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}