MRCG JUNE 2022 MEDIA FREEDOM REVIEW
In June 2022, the MRCG monitored the alleged physical assault of a journalist in the Well of Parliament; the work of Sierra Leone’s Cyber Investigative Directorate (CID); and the enactment of the National Electronic Communication Act 2021. The MRCG followed up on the matter of a journalist who was under police custody; the alleged ‘assassination attempt’ on a journalist, and the matter between a journalist and a magistrate in Kenema.