Sierra Leone: Man Jailed Six Months for Insulting President Koroma

Magistrate Santigie Bangura, presiding at the Pademba Road Magistrates' Courts No.5, yesterday sentenced one Ansumana Bangura to six months imprisonment with no alternative of fine, after he was convicted for public insult and provocation on President Ernest Bai Koroma.

Bangura was arraigned on two counts of threatening language and public insult, and provocation contrary to Sierra Leone's Public Order Act of 1965.

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