{"id":15172914,"date":"2026-06-22T20:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T00:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/release-sowore-now-drop-all-charges-serap-tells-tinubu-govt\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T22:32:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T02:32:45","slug":"release-sowore-now-drop-all-charges-serap-tells-tinubu-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/release-sowore-now-drop-all-charges-serap-tells-tinubu-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Release Sowore now, drop all charges\u2019 \u2013 SERAP tells Tinubu govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged \u201cthe government of President Bola Tinubu to immediately and unconditionally release journalist Omoyele Sowore and drop all charges of criminal defamation and cybercrimes against him, as he is detained solely for the peaceful exercise\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"inmi-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2026\/06\/release-sowore-now-drop-all-charges-serap-tells-tinubu-govt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">News &#8211; Nigeria &#8211; vanguardngr<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged \u201cthe government of President Bola Tinubu to immediately and unconditionally release journalist Omoyele Sowore and drop all charges of criminal defamation and cybercrimes against him, as he is detained solely for the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15173132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[374],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15172914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lagos"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15172914-omoyele-sowore.jpg",1080,610,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15172914-omoyele-sowore-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15172914-omoyele-sowore-620x350.jpg",620,350,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15172914-omoyele-sowore-768x434.jpg",768,434,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15172914-omoyele-sowore-940x531.jpg",940,531,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15172914-omoyele-sowore.jpg",1080,610,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15172914-omoyele-sowore.jpg",1080,610,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15172914-omoyele-sowore-998x610.jpg",998,610,true],"ignition_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15172914-omoyele-sowore-670x446.jpg",670,446,true],"ignition_item_lg":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15172914-omoyele-sowore.jpg",1080,610,false],"ignition_article_media":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15172914-omoyele-sowore-510x510.jpg",510,510,true],"ignition_minicart_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15172914-omoyele-sowore-160x160.jpg",160,160,true],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15172914-omoyele-sowore-24x24.jpg",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15172914-omoyele-sowore-48x48.jpg",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15172914-omoyele-sowore-96x96.jpg",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15172914-omoyele-sowore-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15172914-omoyele-sowore-300x300.jpg",300,300,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"news.iNthacity","author_link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/author\/atombo\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/articles\/news\/africa\/nigeria\/lagos\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Lagos<\/a>","tag_info":"Lagos","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15172914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15172914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15172914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15172915,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15172914\/revisions\/15172915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15173132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15172914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15172914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15172914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}