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At least three journalists a month flee their home countries
to escape threats of violence, imprisonment, or harassment. By Elisabeth Witchel and Karen Phillips
Committee to Protect Journalists
Special Reports
Liberia
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Charles Taylor, the former warlord who rules Liberia, has little tolerance for "anti-patriotic" media
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For some delegates, just getting to the West African Journalists Association (WAJA) regional conference in Dakar, Senegal, was an impressive achievement. While his colleagues used more conventional modes of transportation, Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) president Frank Kposowa navigated his way out of the country by night in a hired motorized dugout canoe. The state of anarchy in Sierra Leone since the May 25, 1997, coup d'?état had rendered travel virtually impossible, and Kposowa's risky passage was just another example of the challenges facing courageous journalists who chose to remain in the country and risked losing their lives by practicing their profession.
Liberian broadcast journalist Alex Redd became the focus of international attention late last year when he was kidnapped and tortured by state security forces for attempting to investigate and report on the murder of political opposition leader Samuel Dokie, his wife, and two family members. Upon release, Redd was arrested and tried for inciting the public against the government. He fled to the United States in January 1998 after being released on bail. He spoke with CPJ's associate editor Jesse T. Stone about his experiences, and the state of the media in Liberia.
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