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CPJ calls for investigation into attack on Sierra Leonean journalist Alie Melvin Tokowa

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Police officers are seen outside the high court in Freetown, Sierra Leone in March 2018. A group of seven people kicked, choked, and beat journalist Alie Melvin Tokowa as he attempted to cover an event by the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party in the southern district of Moyamba on March 28, 2023. (Reuters/Olivia Acland)

A media rights defender, The Committee to Protect Journalists CPJ is calling on Sierra Leonean authorities to investigate the recent attack on journalist Alie Melvin Tokowa.

CPJ also demands that the perpetrators be brought to book.

Tokowa, manager of a community radio FOP 89.7FM Moyamba, was attacked, choked, and beaten by a group of people in the southern district.

For more details on this attack as documented by CPJ, let’s join Maty Sy.

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Police officers are seen outside the high court in Freetown, Sierra Leone in March 2018. A group of seven people kicked, choked, and beat journalist Alie Melvin Tokowa as he attempted to cover an event by the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party in the southern district of Moyamba on March 28, 2023. (Reuters/Olivia Acland)
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