Liberian Protest Planner 'Secretly' Arrested

Former Minister Tiawon Gongloe, now a human rights activist, has raised the alarm about the arrest of Vandallah R. Patricks, one of those accused of protesting during President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's State of the Nation address

Riot police quelling a protest. (file photo)

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