(RSF/IFEX) – RSF is deploring the tragic death of Myles Tierney, a cameraman with the Associated Press (AP) agency, in Sierra Leone. According to RSF’s information, the cameraman, of North American nationality, was shot and killed on the afternoon of 10 January in Freetown. His colleague, Ian Stewart, Canadian chief of the AP regional bureau […]
(RSF/IFEX) – RSF is deploring the tragic death of Myles Tierney, a cameraman
with the Associated Press (AP) agency, in Sierra Leone.
According to RSF’s information, the cameraman, of North American
nationality, was shot and killed on the afternoon of 10 January in Freetown.
His colleague, Ian Stewart, Canadian chief of the AP regional bureau in
Abidjan, was seriously injured during the gunfire attack. The two
journalists were travelling in a convoy of the ECOMOG intervention force
(West African regional intervention force) with Information Minister Julius
Spencer. They were allegedly attacked by a group of rebels wearing ECOMOG
uniforms.
RSF recalls that another journalist, BBC reporter Edward Smith, died in
April 1998 under similar circumstances (see IFEX alert of 15 April 1998).
The organisation is asking Sierra Leone authorities, ECOMOG and
Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels to ensure the protection of
journalists covering the confrontations in Sierra Leone.
