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President Charles Taylor remains the single greatest threat to press freedom in Liberia. As global pressure mounted on his government to improve its bleak human rights record, Taylor responded with his usual mix of paranoia and brutality, jailing reporters for "espionage," shutting down newspapers for unpaid taxes and imposing a news blackout on an armed…https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cpj-logo.png24001260