MEDIA FREEDOM REVIEW-SEPTEMBER 2023
MEDIA FREEDOM REVIEW-SEPTEMBER 2023
In September 2023, MRCG followed up on issues including, shutdown of a radio in Freetown, online ‘death threat’ against a journalist, assault on a journalist, alleged destruction of property of a journalist in Freetown while on duty, alleged assault on a journalist in Moyamba district, alleged verbal threat against a journalist by a police officer, alleged physical assault of two journalists, alleged ‘assassination attempt’ on a journalist in Kambia district, the matter of former Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) boss lawyer Ady Macauley, the alleged physical assault on a journalist in Waterloo, the matter between a journalist and a magistrate in Pujehun and other media engagements.