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20 Auust 2010
Community Radio Station Attacked

12 July 2010
Senator Threatens Lives of Newspaper Staff

11 June 2010
Newspaper publisher complains of death threats

23 April 2010
For Televising Asst. Minister’s View: Supreme Court Summon TV Manager

21 April 2010
Mayor attempts to have reporter arrested

8 April 2010
Journalist arrested, harassed on mayor's orders

26 March 2010
Presidential security service personnel assault journalist

25 March 2010
Journalist acquitted of "disorderly conduct"

11 March 2010
Journalist released on bail after spending two nights in prison

2 March 2010
CEMESP launches 2009 annual press freedom report

1 March 2010
Journalists barred from covering Tony Blair's meeting with vice president

1 March 2010
Newspaper and its staff face libel lawsuit

24 February 2010
Security agency instructs printing press not to print newspaper

19 February 2010
Newspaper fined US$900,000 for libel

19 February 2010
Four editors demoted after protesting suppression of opposition views

12 January 2010
Journalists briefly held hostage by head of youth federation

22 December 2009
Newspaper publisher and printer formally charged, imprisoned

18 December 2009
"Public Agenda" newspaper facing two lawsuits

16 December 2009
Newspaper publisher and printer detained by state security, released

16 November 2009
Editor Sued By Member of the House of Representatives

16 October 2009
Local Officials Hijack Community Radio Station

15 September 2009
Liberian President Drags New Broom to Court: Claims USD 5m for damages

5 September 2009
Lawmaker threatens Newspaper and Publisher with Lawsuit

1 September 2009
Mayor and police storm newspaper office; lawmaker seizes journalist's recorder

14 August 2009
Ministry of Information halts printing of two newspapers

11 August 2009
Reporter attacked by security personnel

19 May 2009
Senate president apologises for attacking radio reporter

11 May 2009
Reporters refuse to cover senate news after president assaults colleague

6 May 2009
Journalist assaulted by senator

9 March 2009
Police beat, handcuff journalist Nathaniel McClain for photographing police

3 March 2009
Government halts publication of the "New Broom" over allegations of non-registration

16 January 2009
President Sirleaf Threatens the New Democrat Newspaper

12 January 2009
Sports journalist assaulted by police officer

26 November 2008
Journalist's camera confiscated by chief justice, later returned to him

15 September 2008
Newspaper managing editor and reporter receive death threats; football club president threatens to have sports journalist flogged

29 August 2008
Senator's brief seizure of journalist's equipment sparks debate on reporters' right to record informal discussions, arguments in Senate

18 June 2008
Two journalists detained briefly for taking photographs

7 May 2008
New national free expression coalition launched on World Press Freedom Day
 

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