CPJ calls on Sierra Leone to release newspaper editor
December 18, 2015 4:08 PM ET
Abuja, Nigeria, December 18, 2015--The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in Sierra Leone to release Jonathan Leigh, managing editor of the Independent Observer. Leigh was arrested Thursday on accusations of publishing false information, according to news reports and...
In Sierra Leone, journalists held on libel, sedition charges
October 24, 2013 6:02 PM ET
Lagos, Nigeria, October 24, 2013--Authorities in Sierra Leone should immediately release two reporters being held on charges of sedition and libel in connection with a story criticizing President Ernest Bai Koroma, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today....