{"id":68360,"date":"2016-04-20T01:20:07","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T23:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/minister-for-africa-condemns-violence-in-the-gambia\/"},"modified":"2016-04-20T01:20:07","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T23:20:07","slug":"minister-for-africa-condemns-violence-in-the-gambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/minister-for-africa-condemns-violence-in-the-gambia\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister for Africa condemns violence in The Gambia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span dir=\"ltr\"> LONDON, United Kingdom, April 19, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Commenting on The Gambian Government\u2019s response to electoral reform protests, Minister for Africa James Duddridge said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I am deeply concerned over allegations of excessive violence and ill treatment of those in custody following peaceful demonstrations in The Gambia.<\/p>\n<p>The United Kingdom calls on The Gambian authorities to investigate these claims in a thorough and transparent manner, ensuring that anyone responsible for any wrongdoing is held accountable and brought to justice.<\/p>\n<p>Those in custody should either be charged or released immediately and be treated in accordance with internationally acceptable human rights standards.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Follow Foreign Office Minister James Duddridge on Twitter<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamesDuddridge\" rel=\"external\">@JamesDuddridge<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Follow the Foreign Office on Twitter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foreignoffice\" rel=\"external\">@foreignoffice<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON, United Kingdom, April 19, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; Commenting on The Gambian Government\u2019s response to electoral reform protests, Minister for Africa James Duddridge said: I am deeply concerned over allegations of excessive violence and ill treatment of those in custody following peaceful demonstrations in The Gambia. The United Kingdom calls on The Gambian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[428,4585,830],"class_list":{"0":"post-68360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-africa-news-2","7":"tag-africa","8":"tag-apo","9":"tag-news","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}