Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 October 2022: It was 9am yesterday Monday in Freetown, from where the editor of the Sierra Leone Telegraph received this poignant message from one of his reporters: “This morning I was taking my sister to Connaught hospital. The area was blocked by armed military personnel. I [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 October 2022: There are calls tonight for president Bio of Sierra Leone to respect the rights and wishes of dozens of families to bury their loved ones, shot dead in state-orchestrated executions by the country’s security forces during the August 10th street demonstrations in Freetown and [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 October 2022: Mayor of Freetown Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, yesterday Friday, 14th October 2022, appeared at the magistrate court in Lungi, just distance away from the country’s international airport where she was accused by police of disorderly behaviour and obstruction of officers trying to arrest elected opposition councillor [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 October 2022: Mayor of Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown – Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, is tonight in Police Headquarters in Freetown, after she was arrested this evening to answer further questions about allegations of misconduct and disorderly behaviour made by the police against her last month at the Lungi [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 October 2022: President Bio’s poor human rights record is being dented further, following his government’s refusal to hand over the remains of twenty-five people suspected to have been killed by security forces on the 10th of August 2022, when thousands took to the streets across the [Read More]
Ibrahim B. Koroma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 October 2022: In his address to the nation when he received the Governance Transition Team (GTT) report authored by former Chief Minister Prof. David Francis and others, Maada Bio begged us to join them in cleansing the state of corruption back in 2018 [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 October 2022: Dozens of unarmed youths were taken away from a house on the outskirts of the northern city of Makeni by the army, believed to be involved in ‘illegal activity’. The army has not confirmed the nature of the illegal activity, other than to report [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 October 2022: Yesterday Saturday 8th of October, Mayor of Freetown – Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr was out in the streets of the capital calling on people to go out and register to vote, ahead of local, general and presidential elections taking place in June 2023. The Mayor who [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 October 2022: Veteran human rights and constitutional lawyer – Barrister Ady Macauley (Photo above) spent last night behind bars in Freetown, after he was arrested by police following his appearance weeks ago on AYV TV, where he gave his legal interpretation of the country’s freedom of [Read More]
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