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Sierra Leone’s criminal libel law sparks barber boycott

November 10, 2009 2:24 PM EST

My looks have completely changed in recent months. Long hair now colonizes my chin and my head. Never in my adult life have I waited longer than a week without a shave or a haircut, let alone for four months. One ends up doing the strangest things for press freedom in Sierra Leone.

Can Sierra Leone bring justice in fatal beating of editor?

March 25, 2009 3:12 PM EDT

The case had all the hallmarks of a sordid thriller. There was “a rogue politician, a journalist getting killed, a staunchly incurious police, and the media in frenzy,” veteran journalist Lansana Gberie wrote in the New African, describing the fatal 2005 beating of editor Harry Yansaneh in Sierra Leone.

Getting Away With Murder 2009

March 23, 2009 12:15 AM EDT

CPJ’s Impunity Index spotlights countrieswhere journalists are slain and killers go free New York, March 23, 2009 — The already murderous conditions for the press in Sri Lanka and Pakistan deteriorated further in the past year, the Committee to Protect Journalists has found in its newly updated Impunity Index, a list of countries where journalists…

Attacks on the Press in 2008: Africa Developments

February 10, 2009 12:53 AM EST