Describes action as creeping return of the old tacticsThe Press Union of Liberia (PUL) has said it is shocked about Monday’s raid on the offices of FrontPage Africa (FPA) newspaper on the orders of authorities of the Monrovia Civil Law Court. Gov’t denialThe government yesterday refuted allegations that it influenced the arrest of journalists of FrontPage Africa (FPA) newspaper, which it said has recently been critical of President George Weah. The suit filed against the newspaper follows publication of an ‘erroneous’ survey advertisement published in the paper on Friday, March 16, 2018. Morgan and Moses T. Konah consequently sought a retraction of the advertisement, which FrontPage says it did on March 23. FrontPage however insisted that the government engineered Monday’s raid, arguing that the offending advertisement had been published in many other newspapers, yet only the FPA newspaper was singled out by the suit.

Source: Daily Observer April 11, 2018 02:26 UTC