The Human Rights Advocacy Platform of Liberia Wants Senate Withdraw Sen. Johnson’s Election as Chairman on Defense and Security
The Human Rights Advocacy Platform of Liberia Wants Senate Withdraw Sen. Johnson’s Election as Chairman on Defense and Security
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Monrovia – The Human Rights Advocacy Platform of Liberia, a network of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) working on human rights and transitional justice issues in Liberia, is calling on the Liberian Senate to immediately withdraw the names of Prince Johnson and Cllr. Varney Sherman on the Senate committees on Defense and Intelligence and Judiciary, Human Rights and Petition, respectively.
Johnson, a warlord and senator of Nimba County, was last week elected to chair the committee on Defense and Security, while Sherman, senator of Grand Cape Mount County who was sanctioned by the United States Department of the Treasury for corruption involving judicial bribery, was elected unopposed the chair on the Senate committ
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MAY 12, 2021
Executive Summary
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