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October 1
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Sierra Leone: Alert - Three Newspapers Suspended, Fined Two Million Leones Each [press release]
The Independent Media Commission (IMC), the statutory media regulatory body on September 26, 2012 suspended for a month, three privately-owned newspapers for allegedly producing... Read more »
August 9
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Sierra Leone: Journalists Manhandled By Soldiers [press release]
Poindexter Sama and Alie Turay, reporter and graphic designer respectively, of privately-owned Awoko newspaper were in the morning of August 2, 2012 violently attacked by a group... Read more »
July 28
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Sierra Leone: Radio Station, Journalists Violently Attacked [press release]
John Raka Conteh, a panelist on Radio Gbath, an independent community radio station in Tonkolili district, north of Sierra Leone, attacked the station after refusing orders from... Read more »
June 14
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Sierra Leone: No Justice for Slain Journalist, One Year On
A year after the death of Ibrahim Foday, reporter of the Daily Exclusive Newspaper, no arrest, prosecution or trial has been meted out to the perpetrator(s) of this heinous crime. Read more »
March 28
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Sierra Leone: Local Leader Forces Radio Station Off Air [press release]
Radio Wanjei, a community radio station in Pujehun, a town in southern Sierra Leone, has been off air for the past eight days after the Chairman of Pujehun District Council, Sadiq... Read more »
March 20
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Sierra Leone: TV Cameraman Attacked By Opposition Party Supporters [press release]
Jerry Cole, a senior television cameraman of the state-owned Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC), was on March 12, 2012 attacked by some supporters of the main opposition... Read more »
December 15, 2010
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Sierra Leone: Minster Orders Arrests of Newspaper Journalists [press release]
Four Freetown-based independent newspaper journalists were on December 13, 2010 arrested and detained by the police on the orders of Allieu Pat Sowe, the country's Minister of... Read more »
December 13, 2010
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Sierra Leone: Justice for Journalists Attacked At Opposition Party Conference [press release]
A committee set up to investigate an alleged assault on ten journalists covering a conference of the opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) in the early part of this year,... Read more »
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