Sierra Leone said Wednesday it was holding a journalist in a maximum security prison after a guest on his radio show criticised President Ernest Bai Koroma’s handling of the Ebola outbreak.
David Tam Baryoh, host of the weekly “Monologue” programme on the private Citizen FM, was arrested on Tuesday and sent to Freetown’s notorious Pademba Road jail.
“The detention came from an....
executive order which was signed by President Ernest Koroma and it was executed by the police,” said government spokesman Abdulai Bayratay.
The arrest followed Baryoh’s show being taken off air during a live broadcast on November 1, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), citing local media.
Baryoh had interviewed an opposition party spokesman who criticised Koroma and his government’s handling of the Ebola outbreak.
The host and his guest both also criticised Koroma’s intention to run for a third term in office, according to local media.
Bayratay didn’t specify the charges against Baryoh but said anyone who “obstructs, incites or has the tendency to undermine the efforts of government” to fight the epidemic is liable for arrest.
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