MEDIA FREEDOM REVIEW – MAY 2024

In May 2024, MRCG monitored the arrest warrant for the CEO of Justice FM and the verbal threat against
a freelance journalist in Bo. It also followed up on various issues, including the invitation and detention of
a journalist in Kenema, the attack on the office and staff of a radio in Makeni, Northern Sierra Leone, the
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 physical
assault of two journalists, the matter of former Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) boss, the alleged
physical assault on a journalist in Waterloo, the matter between a journalist and a magistrate in Pujehun
and other media engagements.