The station manager of a Liberian radio station was reportedly severely beaten yesterday and later required medical treatment. Hector Mulbah, station manager at Radio Gbezohn, said that he was beaten after a dispute in which a politician refused to “underwrite the cost of Radio Talks Shows whenever he is hosted,” the New Dawn reported. Country […]

IPI welcomed the decision by Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to work toward the repeal of criminal defamation laws in her country, which came amid other recent positive developments with respect to libel laws around the world. In a speech given on May 3, President Johnson Sirleaf endorsed the Declaration of Table Mountain, which calls […]

As Liberia prepares for a presidential run-off election to be held on 8 November, there have been a series of attacks and threats against journalists –  in the latest incident, a radio and television station were targeted in an arson attack. A month and a half ago, David Kolleh of the FrontPage Africa newspaper was intimidated and […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned arson threats against the Liberian Daily Observer that were made on 2 April. The publisher and the marketing manager of the Monrovia-based Daily Observer each recently received threatening phone calls from an unknown caller who said that Publisher and Managing Director Kenneth Y. Best’s house would be burnt […]