Sierra Leone Association of Journalists 1st Floor, 56 Campbell Street, Freetown, Sierra Leone P.M.B. 724, Website: www.slaj.sl; Email: slaj.salone@gmail.com President: +232 76/77/33 609285, Secretary-General +2327 6460423 / +23233 533547 Date: 18 August 2010 PRESS RELEASE SLAJ’S FIFTH MOTHHLY SYMPOSIUM DISCUSSES MEDIA ETHICS Freetown- The fifth edition of the SLAJ Monthly Symposium will be held on Friday, 27th August 2010 at 9:00 a.m. at the association’s conference (...)

March 12, 2010 : World Day Against Cyber Censorship Release of a new list of “Enemies of the Internet”. Russia and Turkey added to the “Under Surveillance” list. On March 12, Reporters Without Borders celebrates World Day Against Cyber Censorship. This event is intended to rally everyone in support of a free Internet, accessible to all. The fight for free access to information is being played out to an ever greater extent on the Internet. The emerging general trend (...)

Reporters Without Borders learned recently from a source within the military government in Conakry that the Lynx-Lance press group and some of its journalists could be the target of an “operation.” Consisting of two weeklies, La Lance and the satirical Le Lynx, with a combined print run that is the largest in Guinea, the group is renowned for being independent and outspoken. “We are taking this information and the threat it entails very seriously,” Reporters (...)

SIERRA LEONE ASSOCIATION OF JOURNALISTS (SLAJ) Headquarters, 1st Floor, 56 Campbell Street, Freetown, Sierra Leone P.M.B. 724 E-mail: slaj.salone@gmail.com President: +232 76/77/33 609285 Secretary General: +232 76/77/30/33 652556 SUPREME COURT DISMISSES SLAJ’S CASE FOR REPEAL OF CRIMINAL LIBEL LAWS IN SIERRA LEONE Freetown – SLAJ wishes to inform the public, especially its strategic partners that the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone on Tuesday November 10, 2009 dismissed (...)

SIERRA LEONE ASSOCIATION OF JOURNALISTS (SLAJ) 1st Floor, 56 Campbell Street, Freetown, Sierra Leone P.M.B. 724 E-mail: slaj_salone@yahoo.com President: +232 76 609285 Secretary General: +232 76 652556 Date: 28 October 2009 The Ombudsman Republic of Sierra Leone Siaka Stevens Street Freetown Dear Sir, COMPLAINT AGAINST THE SUPREME COURT In August this year, we wrote to President Ernest Bai Koroma a petition letter against the Supreme Court’s violation of our (...)

Amadou Diallo and Mouctar Bah, local correspondents of British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and Radio France International (RFI) respectively, have since September 28, 2009, escaped into hiding with their families following death threats they received from angry soldiers. The two were among eleven journalists, violently assaulted and roughened up by the security forces in their bid to clamp down on local mass rally organised by the coalition of civil society groups and political parties (...)

Sierra Leone Reporters Union (SLRU) C/O SLAJ Secretariat 56 Campbell Street Freetown Email:reportersunion@yahoo.co.uk Tel: President 030 215 507 Secretary General 076 613 706 PRESS RELEASE The Sierra Leone Reporters Union (SLRU) is pleased to inform the general membership that the Registrar of Trade Unions in the Ministry of Employment, Labour and Social Security has written a letter to the Government Printer, Government Printing Department requesting them (...)

Police in the Democratic Republic of Congo should thoroughly and transparently investigate the killing of a radio reporter on Friday, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Didace Namujimbo(pictured), 34, a reporter for the United Nations-sponsored broadcasting network Radio Okapi, in the volatile eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, was shot by unknown gunmen at close range on Friday evening. Namujimbo was the second Radio Okapi journalist assassinated in the border town of (...)

Reporters Without Borders (http://www.rsf.org) Press release US secretary of state Hillary Clinton should stress the need to respect press freedom during her talks with government officials on the seven-nation African tour she has just begun in Kenya, Reporters Without Borders said today. “We welcome the US secretary of state’s decision to accord Africa a tour of this length,” Reporters Without Borders said. “We share her interest in combating corruption and we (...)

Seven journalists and press union leaders were arrested this past week for criticising the Gambian President(Yayah Jammeh) for his comments on the unsolved 2004 murder of a prominent editor, report the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The Gambia’s National Intelligence Agency (NIA) arrested seven journalists in connection with a press statement issued on 12 June by the Gambian Press Union (GPU). (...)