(MFWA/IFEX) – On 25 July 2005, Paul Kamara, editor of the Freetown-based newspaper “For Di People”, who is serving a 2-year prison term for seditious libel, was refused his application for bail. The Appeal Court in Freetown, presided over by Justices Jon Kamanda and Patricia Macauley, ruled that Kamara did not have sufficient reasons to […]
(MFWA/IFEX) – On 25 July 2005, Paul Kamara, editor of the Freetown-based newspaper “For Di People”, who is serving a 2-year prison term for seditious libel, was refused his application for bail.
The Appeal Court in Freetown, presided over by Justices Jon Kamanda and Patricia Macauley, ruled that Kamara did not have sufficient reasons to be granted bail.
Earlier applications by J.O.D Cole, Kamara’s lawyer, for the editor’s release also failed.
According to MFWA’s sources in Sierra Leone, Cole cited several rulings by the Appeal Court granting bail to defendants who had more serious cases to answer than Kamara. However, Justices Kamanda and Macauley ruled that no special health circumstances existed to grant Kamara a bail.
