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Harassed
August 28
Ibrahim Seaga Shaw, Expo Times, IMPRISONED, HARASSED
Gibril Koroma, Expo Times, HARASSED
Ten Central Investigation Department (CID) officers searched the editorial offices of the Expo Times for "subversive documents" and arrested publisher and editor in chief Shaw and news editor Koroma. The search and arrests were in connection with an Aug. 28 story about the Sierra Leone government's interception of a message from rebel leader Foday Sankoh of the Revolutionary United Front. The message contained instructions to his forces to begin fighting, which would effectively put an end to a cease-fire in Sierra Leone's civil war. CID agents failed to uncover any documents related to the article. Koroma was released from CID custody one hour later. Shaw continues to be detained without charge at CID headquarters. In a letter to President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah, CPJ asked for Shaw's unconditional release and the cessation of CID harassment of journalists.
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