Journalists killed in Liberia since 1992
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Liberian newspaper publisher arrested over civil libel case
October 21, 2016 11:30 AM ET
Philipbert Browne, the publisher of Liberia's Hot Pepper newspaper, was arrested at his office and jailed at the Monrovia Central Prison in the Liberian capital on October 7, 2016, for libel on the orders of a Civil Law Court over a story in his paper titled, "During Ebola Time: 'I...
Liberia journalist detained for republishing story about president of Equatorial Guinea
October 6, 2016 9:43 AM ET
Plainclothes police officers on September 15, 2016, detained Festus Poquie, a journalist with Liberia's New Democrat newspaper, from his office and took him to the Liberia National Police headquarters in the capital Monrovia, where he was detained and interrogated for several hours....
Liberia forces critical radio station Voice FM to stop broadcasting
July 7, 2016 9:52 AM ET
Nairobi, July 7, 2016--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemned the decision by Liberian authorities to shut down the privately owned station Voice FM and called on the government today to allow the station to resume broadcasting immediately....
Liberian journalist beaten for refusing to delete video
May 17, 2016 2:23 PM ET
Three men beat Wremongar Joe, a journalist with the radio station Prime FM, in Buchanan, some 60 miles (100 kilometres) southeast of the capital Monrovia, on May 7, 2016, after the journalist refused to delete a video of a brawl between a lawmaker and other spectators during a football match,...
Amid Ebola outbreak, West African governments try to isolate media
April 27, 2015 11:01 AM ET
On the first Saturday of November 2014, when media owner and broadcaster David Tam Baryoh switched on the mic for his weekly "Monologue" show on independent Citizen FM in Freetown, Sierra Leone, he had no idea that criticizing the government's handling of Ebola would mean 11 days in jail....
In Ebola-stricken countries, authorities and journalists should work together
October 17, 2014 4:14 PM ET
The Ebola crisis in West Africa is unrelenting, and journalists on the frontline of reporting on the virus are caught between authorities wanting to control how the outbreak is reported, and falling victim to the disease themselves....
In attempts to contain Ebola, Liberia censors its press
September 11, 2014 12:49 PM ET
With the Ebola epidemic predicted to get worse, the Liberian government has taken action to silence news outlets critical of its handling of the health crisis which, according to Liberia's Information Ministry, has claimed more than 1,000 lives in the country since March. Publishers have been harassed and forced...
Liberian police beat journalist covering ebola protest
August 15, 2014 12:52 PM ET
Liberian police on August 11, 2014, assaulted Henry Karmo, a journalist with the independent FrontPageAfrica newspaper, while he was photographing protesters in the capital, Monrovia, demonstrating against the imposition of a 90-day state of emergency by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, according to news reports. The directive was aimed at controlling...