成人快手

Journalists in Sierra Leone have called it 鈥渁 watershed moment鈥� or even Liberation Day.

The country鈥檚 president, Julius Maada Bio, has repealed the 55-year-old Criminal and Seditious Libel Law which has been used by successive governments to jail journalists. Among other things, truth does not serve as a defence under the law, which also allows for pre-trial detention.

After the signing ceremony at State House, the 成人快手's Umaru Fofana spoke to President Bio.

"You cannot have a vibrant democracy without journalism which is unfettered... of course that poses some problems but that is part of the democratic environment we have to live in."

(Photo: Sierra Leone's president Julius Maada Bio. Credit: AFP)