Journalist Fayia Amara of the Standard Times newspaper in Sierra Leone was allegedly beaten by a group of soldiers as he was reporting on new COVID-19 quarantine centre in the city of Kenema. The journalist said around nine soldiers of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF) started beating him after he used his mobile phone to take photos of the operations at the facility from a barricade outside. The soldiers allegedly hit him with their weapons and beat him on the ground. Amara was then arrested and himself charged with the assault of a local official at the scene.