{"id":58274,"date":"2024-12-20T17:56:14","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T17:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58274"},"modified":"2024-12-20T17:56:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T17:56:14","slug":"court-grants-farotimi-bail-in-criminal-defamation-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/12\/20\/court-grants-farotimi-bail-in-criminal-defamation-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Grants Farotimi Bail in Criminal Defamation Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Our Correspondent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Chief Magistrate\u2019s Court in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, has granted activist and lawyer Dele Farotimi bail in a criminal defamation case involving senior lawyer Afe Babalola.<br \/>\nThe ruling, delivered on Friday by Chief Magistrate Abayomi Adeosun, came 16 days after Mr. Farotimi\u2019s detention on charges related to his book, Nigeria and its Criminal Justice System.<br \/>\nBail was set at \u20a630 million, with additional conditions, including the surrender of Mr. Farotimi\u2019s passport to the court registrar and a prohibition on granting media interviews until the case concludes.<br \/>\nThe courtroom and its surroundings saw heightened security as the police deployed heavily armed Rapid Response Squad operatives.<br \/>\nHuman rights activists and advocacy groups also gathered to protest, demanding Mr. Farotimi\u2019s unconditional release.<br \/>\nMr. Farotimi was arraigned on December 4 on 16 charges of defamation.<br \/>\nThe charges stemmed from allegations in his book accusing Mr. Babalola, founder of Afe Babal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Our Correspondent A Chief Magistrate\u2019s Court in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, has granted activist and lawyer Dele Farotimi bail in a criminal defamation case involving senior lawyer Afe Babalola. The ruling, delivered on Friday by Chief Magistrate Abayomi Adeosun, came 16 days after Mr. Farotimi\u2019s detention on charges related to his book, Nigeria and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":58275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1386,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judiciary","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58274","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58276,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58274\/revisions\/58276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}