Liberian minister threatens newspaper publisher with jail

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Liberian President George Weah to keep his promises to respect press freedom and combat corruption by unreservedly condemning a close aide’s threat to have Rodney Sieh, the publisher of the country’s leading investigative newspaper, jailed over a report about questionable government spending.“Rodney Sieh will go to jail because I will not allow people to tarnish my reputation,” Minister of State for Presidential Affairs Nathaniel McGill

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