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Liberian Journalists Assaulted while Covering Senate Election

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    March 3, 2021
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On December 14, 2020, two supporters of Liberian senatorial candidate Botoe Kanneh beat up and threatened to kill Henry Bobo Gboluma, a reporter with the privately owned Local Voices Liberia news website, according to Gboluma, who spoke by phone with CPJ, and a report by his employer.

Gboluma said he photographed the men at an election office in Normor, a town in Liberia’s western Gbarpolu county, as they took ballot papers from elections officials, claiming that votes for Kanneh’s opponent had been illegally cast.

Gboluma was at the office reporting on events leading up to Gbarpolu county elections that were scheduled for December 15, but which were later rescheduled to the following month, he said.

The men cut Gboluma’s press accreditation card from his neck and then punched him in the chest and head for about two minutes, until another of Kanneh’s supporters intervened and pulled him out of the scuffle, he said. The attackers threatened to kill Gboluma if he continued covering the election dispute, he told CPJ.

Gboluma said he took a motorbike out of the area and went to a hospital in Monrovia, Liberia’s capital, where he was examined and treated for pains in his head and chest.

When CPJ contacted Kanneh, she denied that any of her supporters had attacked Gboluma, and disputed his characterization of the incident in subsequent media reports.

 

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  • Date of Occurrence
    2021-03-03
  • Perpetrator
    Party Supporters
  • Source
    https://cpj.org/2021/03/liberian-journalists-assaulted-while-covering-senate-election-sports-tournament/
Region
  • Liberia
Rights & Freedom Violated
  • Press Freedom
Gender of Victim(s)
  • Male
Mode of Attacks
  • Unlawful Killings, Physical Attacks, Torture, Degrading Treatment
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