Liberia's president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, has appointed a committee to investigate a recent spate of attacks on journalists. Since May, there have been three incidents in which journalists have been harassed and assaulted by members of the country's security services. Four reporters were briefly detained last month for taking pictures of a noticeboard that announced the firing of five Special Security Service agents. Five days before, several journalists were roughed up in a scuffle with SSS agents at an airport while they were trying to interview the president. (Via AllAfrica News: Press and Media)
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