In May, the government of President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah arrested Abdoul Kouyateh, acting editor of the private weekly Wisdom, for allegedly endangering state security by requesting an interview with Sankoh. Kouyateh was investigating allegations that the Kabbah government had hired mercenaries to unseat Charles Taylor, president of neighboring Liberia. The results of his investigation were never published. Kouyateh was not released until late September. Speaking to reporters, Attorney General and Minister of Justice Solomon Berewa argued that the journalists prolonged detention without formal charges did not violate Sierra Leones Constitution because he was being held under the State of Emergency Act.... cpj.org/2001/03/attacks-on-the-press-2000-sierra-leone.php
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