Guest Writer: Volume 2. No. 2: Making the Impossible Possible: Repeal of Criminal Libel Law
By Abubakarr Bah Many leaders before him criminalised free speech and used the seditious libel law to jail journalists, civil society activists and political opponents. His predecessor, Ernest Bai Koroma, promised during the 2007 elections that if he was elected President of Sierra Leone, he would repeal the law. He was elected and five years later re-elected which saw him
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