{"id":58022,"date":"2024-12-14T19:30:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T19:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58022"},"modified":"2024-12-14T19:30:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T19:30:05","slug":"simon-ekpa-detained-in-finlands-high-security-prison-on-terrorism-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/12\/14\/simon-ekpa-detained-in-finlands-high-security-prison-on-terrorism-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Ekpa Detained in Finland\u2019s High-Security Prison on Terrorism Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Gabriella Ogbu<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Simon Ekpa, a leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), is being held at Kylm\u00e4koski Prison, Finland&#8217;s top-security facility known for housing violent and high-risk offenders.<br \/>\nEkpa, along with four others, was arrested on charges of inciting violence and financing terrorism.<br \/>\nFinnish authorities allege he used social media to promote attacks on civilians and law enforcement in Southeast Nigeria.<br \/>\nFollowing his remand by the P\u00e4ij\u00e4t-H\u00e4me District Court, the Finnish government froze Ekpa&#8217;s assets and those of related companies.<br \/>\nInvestigations are ongoing, with Finnish media confirming his detention in the notorious facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gabriella Ogbu Simon Ekpa, a leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), is being held at Kylm\u00e4koski Prison, Finland&#8217;s top-security facility known for housing violent and high-risk offenders. Ekpa, along with four others, was arrested on charges of inciting violence and financing terrorism. Finnish authorities allege he used social media to promote attacks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":58023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-58022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58024,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58022\/revisions\/58024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}