(CPJ/IFEX) – On 8 March 1999, Phillip Neville, managing editor of the independent “Standard Times,” was released from detention. **Updates IFEX alert of 25 February 1999** Background Information On 24 February 1999, plainclothes police officers arrested Neville on the same day of an article titled “Jo Demby’s Partner to Kill Kabbah and Jonah.” The article […]
(CPJ/IFEX) – On 8 March 1999, Phillip Neville, managing editor of the
independent “Standard Times,” was released from detention.
**Updates IFEX alert of 25 February 1999**
Background Information
On 24 February 1999, plainclothes police officers arrested Neville on
the
same day of an article titled “Jo Demby’s Partner to Kill Kabbah and
Jonah.”
The article reported on business ties between Demby, vice president of
Sierra Leone, and Yail Galkaleil, an Israeli national who has been in
detention in Sierra Leone on espionage charges for several weeks. The
article also reported that Galkaleil planned to assassinate President
Ahmed
Tejan Kabbah and Finance Minister James Jonah.
