MEDIA FREEDOM REVIEW-DECEMBER 2023
MEDIA FREEDOM REVIEW - DECEMBER 2023
In December 2023, MRCG followed up on the attack on the office and staff of a radio in Makeni, Northern Sierra Leone and the court appearance of the Organising Secretary of the All Peoples Congress (APC) Party of Bonthe District. It also followed up on various issues including the High Court order for assessment of damages, 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.