Liberia: Media Groups Demand Probe Over Deportation

1 September 2014

Two media groups, The Liberia Media Watch (LMW) and The National Publishers and Broadcasters Association of Liberia (NAPBAL), are calling on the Ministry of Justice to speedily launch an investigation into the overnight illegal deportation of a Liberian-Lebanese Sam Fawaz by the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, with the involvement of the manager of a local radio station.

The Chairman of NAPBAL, J. Rufus Paul and the Secretary General of the LMW, Charles B. Yates, in a joint press release issued over the weekend, indicated that circumstances surrounding the midnight deportation of the 27-year old Liberian national by birth to Lebanon by the BIN and the station manager's involvement speak to volumes of uncertainty and needs immediate investigation by the Justice Ministry.

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