{"id":69707,"date":"2016-04-19T16:17:14","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T16:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=60ccdc09cfb625193057632f3c2bef8c"},"modified":"2016-04-19T16:17:14","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T16:17:14","slug":"press-release-minister-for-africa-condemns-violence-in-the-gambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=69707","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Minister for Africa condemns violence in The Gambia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\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 class=\"last-child\">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 rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamesDuddridge\">@JamesDuddridge<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Follow the Foreign Office on Twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foreignoffice\">@foreignoffice<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"contact \" id=\"contact_193\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Media enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"email\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Email<\/span><br \/>\n              <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:newsdesk@fco.gov.uk\">newsdesk@fco.gov.uk<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">News Desk <\/span><br \/>\n              020 7008 3100\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Duddridge, Minister for Africa, expresses concern on The Gambian Government\u2019s reaction to peaceful protests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}