MEDIA FREEDOM REVIEW – AUGUST 2025

In August 2025, MRCG monitored the invitation of Thomas Dixon, President of the Guild of Newspaper Editors and followed up on various issues including the withdrawal of frequency by the National Telecommunications Authority from two media outlets, the alleged physical assault of a journalist, a verbal threat against a journalist, a physical assault on a journalist, the invitation of Dr Samura Kamara- the 2023 Presidential Flagbearer of the All Peoples Congress (APC), the arrest and detention of a lecturer for a cybercrime offense, the murder of a journalist in Waterloo, the barring of a journalist from entering Sierra Leone’s Parliament, the dismissal and subsequent harassment of a journalist in Makeni and the verbal threat against a freelance journalist in Bo.