(CPJ/IFEX) – On 24 February 1999, plainclothes police officers arrested Phillip Neville, managing editor of the independent “Standard Times,” following the newspaper’s publication 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, […]
(CPJ/IFEX) – On 24 February 1999, plainclothes police officers arrested
Phillip Neville, managing editor of the independent “Standard Times,”
following the newspaper’s publication 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 for three weeks on espionage charges. The article also
reported that Galkaleil planned to assassinate President Ahmed Tejan
Kabbah and Finance Minister James Jonah.
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