A pressman with Accra-based Metro TV on Wednesday tasted life in police cell when he was briefly arrested for disturbing a court hearing. Clement Kigari, who corresponds from the Ashanti Region, was in court to cover the prosecution of the 28-year-old gym instructor who recently raped a 19-year-old lady in public. But narrating his ordeal to Nhyira FM’s Ohemeng Tawiah, Clement said he was asked out of the court room by police officers who said he did not seek clearance from the court registrar before entering to cover the proceedings. While moving out however one officer pushed him, a move he said he protested. “I introduced myself to her as a pressman who wants to listen. [But] that lady went and instructed another policeman that he should drive this journalist out. The policeman came and said I should go out so I started walking away. When I was walking he started pushing me. I turned and said if you say I should go out and I’m going out why are push me again?” he asked. He said while he was engaged in a chat with colleagues outside the court room explaining to them the spectacle, another policeman approached and dragged him “to join the other suspects.” “He (policeman) held me, my legs were not touching the ground, and he pushed me inside,” Clement said. But for the solidarity shown him by a group of colleagues who came over to plead for his release, he would have spent more time behind bars, he said. The journalist said he is demanding explanation from the police. He is however suspicious the action of the police was orchestrated by a person who detested his coverage of the hearing. “Because the first time I came and took pictures of this man we were prevented from taking pictures of this suspected rapist,” he said. Story by Fiifi Koomson/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana