{"id":441864,"date":"2011-06-15T18:26:15","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T18:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/15\/three-suspects-arrested-in-journalists-murder-police-urged-to-produce-hard-evidence\/"},"modified":"2011-06-15T18:26:15","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T18:26:15","slug":"three-suspects-arrested-in-journalists-murder-police-urged-to-produce-hard-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/15\/three-suspects-arrested-in-journalists-murder-police-urged-to-produce-hard-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Suspects Arrested in Journalist&#8217;s Murder, Police Urged to Produce Hard Evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"31.1906052394\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsf.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reporters sans Fronti\u00e8res<\/a> (Paris)<\/p>\n<p>15 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>The Freetown police announced yesterday that they have arrested three suspects in the murder of Ibrahim Foday, a reporter for the daily The Exclusive, who was fatally stabbed during clashes on 12 June between residents of Grafton and Kossoh Town, two communities on the outskirts of the capital. Foday had been covering a land dispute between the two communities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are deeply shocked by this appalling crime and we join the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists in calling on the authorities to carry out a full investigation,&#8221; Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Julliard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The ability of the police to arrest those responsible and the ability of the courts to convict them hold the key to preventing any recurrence of deadly violence against a journalist, which is fortunately rare in Sierra Leone. The investigation must produce hard evidence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses said Foday, 37, was stabbed several times in the back and chest and died while being taken to hospital. This was confirmed by the autopsy.<\/p>\n<p>The last journalist to be murdered in Sierra Leone was Harry Yansaneh of the independent newspaper For Di People in 2005. He died on 28 July 2005, three months after a severe beating by thugs in the pay of Fatmata Hassan Lomeh, then a parliamentary representative of the Sierra Leone Peoples Party. His murderers are still at large.<\/p>\n<p>Sierra Leone is ranked 91st out of 178 countries in the latest Reporters Without Borders press freedom index.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>See original article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106151385.html\" title=\"Three Suspects Arrested in Journalist's Murder, Police Urged to Produce Hard Evidence\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Three Suspects Arrested in Journalist&#8217;s Murder, Police Urged to Produce Hard Evidence<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Reporters sans Fronti\u00e8res (Paris) 15 June 2011 The Freetown police announced yesterday that they have arrested three suspects in the murder of Ibrahim Foday, a reporter for the daily The Exclusive, who was fatally stabbed during clashes on 12 June between residents of Grafton and Kossoh Town, two communities on the outskirts of the capital. Foday had been covering a land dispute between the two communities. &#8220;We are deeply shocked by this appalling crime and we join the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists in calling on the authorities to carry out a full investigation,&#8221; Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Julliard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":441865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-441864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Three Suspects Arrested in Journalist&#039;s Murder, Police Urged to Produce Hard Evidence - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/15\/three-suspects-arrested-in-journalists-murder-police-urged-to-produce-hard-evidence\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Three Suspects Arrested in Journalist&#039;s Murder, Police Urged to Produce Hard Evidence - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Reporters sans Fronti\u00e8res (Paris) 15 June 2011 The Freetown police announced yesterday that they have arrested three suspects in the murder of Ibrahim Foday, a reporter for the daily The Exclusive, who was fatally stabbed during clashes on 12 June between residents of Grafton and Kossoh Town, two communities on the outskirts of the capital. 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