Liberia’s Media, And Gross Libel Claims
By Abdullai K. Kamara The past month has been very rowdy for the media landscape in Liberia. At a hearing of the Media Complaints Committee, claims were made about media targeting specific public officials; media accusing public functionaries of engaging in campaigns to discredit them, deny them of public adverts, and conspiring to eliminate them or destroy their enterprises. On the eve of reaching a position on one of such matters, we encountered the enforcement of a court decision that effectively sends Rodney Sieh, the publisher of FrontPage Africa, to prison…
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