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By Mabinty M. Kamara

The Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone (HRC-SL) has raised grave concerns over the situation in homes and other facilities under quarantine for the Coronavirus disease.

Among many issues highlighted in its latest report is that most homes under quarantine either don’t get their food on time, the food is mostly inadequate or they don’t get food at all.

By Kemo Cham

Accountability campaigners have slammed an attempt by the Sierra Leone government to suspend laws meant to provide safeguards in the management of public funds in its fight against the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.

By Prince J Musa in Kenema    

A bike rider in Kenema, Bockarie Momoh, has accused a Police officer of injuring him in an attempt to stop him from passing through a checkpoint. Momoh said the officer hooked a rope on his neck whiles he was riding and tumbled him over.

Momoh reported the incident to the CDIID and was given a medical report on Monday.

By Prince J Musa in Kenema

The District Emergency Operations Center in Kenema has banned people from transporting dead bodies.

Officials say henceforth all corpses must be buried where the death occur. The move comes amidst concerns that transportation of corpses is fueling the transmission of COVID-19 in the district.

By Francis H. Murray

Former Social Welfare Minister, Dr. Sylvia Blyden was remanded in the custody of the Correctional Services last Friday when she made her first appearance before Magistrate Hannah Bonnie in Freetown at the start of preliminary investigations into a 10-count charge including seditious and defamatory libel, false publication, and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.

By Francis H. Murray

Nineteen people arrested over the recent unrest in the fishing village of Tombo in the Waterloo Rural District are due back in court this morning after they were remanded in custody by Magistrate Hannah Bonnie following their first appearance on Friday last week on a five-count charge including conspiracy to commit an offence, malicious damage, setting fire to a public building and conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm.

By Francis H. Murray

Magistrate Hannah Bonnie last week admitted the spouse of the former defence minister Alfred Pallo Conteh to bail on a Le 200 million bond or two Sierra Leonean sureties resident in Freetown, with one owing property valued at not less than Le 100 million.