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From the Communiqué

22 June 2011

Suspects arrested in rare journalist murder

Ibrahim Foday A police officer and two others have been arrested as suspects in the stabbing death of journalist Ibrahim Foday of "The Exclusive" newspaper near Freetown, Sierra Leone, say the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
19 August 2009

New broadcasting act keeps public media under state control

Parliament passed a bill earlier this month that turns the state-run Sierra Leone Broadcasting Service (SLBS) into a public service broadcaster, but the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) says the President will still have undue powers.

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Two pastors assault newspaper editor; community radio journalists attacked 7 December 2011 Edition of newspaper seized by police 10 November 2011 Presidential guards attack four journalists 9 September 2011 Newspaper reporter receives death threat 13 July 2011 Sports journalists under threat 8 July 2011 Police arrest two suspects in murder of newspaper journalist 23 June 2011 Newspaper editor attacked by ruling party militants 22 June 2011 Newspaper journalist stabbed to death 15 June 2011 Journalists' association to sue opposition politician over attacks on two journalists 7 March 2011 Newspaper faces criminal prosecution 4 March 2011 Minister orders arrest of several newspaper journalists 16 December 2010 Journalist beaten by police, briefly detained 20 October 2010 Radio station receives threats 28 September 2010 Court detains journalist for four hours 27 August 2010 Supreme Court dismisses journalists' association challenge to criminal, seditious libel laws 12 November 2009 Ruling party militants violently assault radio journalist 29 October 2009 New broadcasting law gives president control over state media 14 August 2009 Journalists' group declares news blackout on judiciary 23 June 2009 ARTICLE 19 recommends improvements to draft information law 29 May 2009 Newspaper publisher turns herself in to police, bail set at "extortionary" level 25 May 2009 Newspaper editor-in-chief threatened, in hiding following publication of article about president 21 May 2009 Editor-in-chief violently attacked by ruling-party members 19 May 2009 Newspaper editor David Jabati physically assaulted 18 March 2009 Four female journalists kidnapped, subjected to public humiliation by supporters of female genital mutilation 11 February 2009 Media advocate Emmanuel Saffa Abdulai receives death threats after criticising government 9 February 2009 See all alerts: Sierra Leone
 
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