{"id":726,"date":"2024-08-01T01:31:51","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T01:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=726"},"modified":"2024-08-01T01:31:52","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T01:31:52","slug":"court-issues-injunction-against-civil-society-protests-over-economic-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=726","title":{"rendered":"Court Issues Injunction Against Civil Society Protests Over Economic Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"384\" src=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/Court1.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/Court1.webp 600w, https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/Court1-300x192.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A high court in Ghana has barred groups from holding protests against economic hardship in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>High Court Justice Abena Afia Serwaa upheld a request by Ghana\u2019s police to ban civil society groups from carrying out protests between July 31 and August 6 after the police told the court that they would not be able to provide security to protesters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Court documents seen by ModernGhana News said the police have warned that the planned demonstration could compromise public order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The police said some of their personnel have been posted for political rallies and election campaigns, and they would not guarantee the protection of protesters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Protest organizer Mensah Thompson said citizens have a right to protest and elections should not be excuses for blocking it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYoung people are poised to demonstrate with or without the approval of the authorities. A time comes when they will spontaneously jump on the streets and we will have a \u2018Kenya\u2019 on our hands.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYoung people are poised to demonstrate with or without the approval of the authorities. A time comes when they will spontaneously jump on the streets and we will have a \u2018Kenya\u2019 on our hands.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A high court in Ghana has barred groups from holding protests against economic hardship in the country. High Court Justice Abena Afia Serwaa upheld a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":728,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions\/728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}