Liberian president endorses Declaration of Table Mountain

摘要

WAN-IFRA has welcomed Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's commitment to press freedom after her public endorsement of the Declaration of Table Mountain, a continent-wide call to repeal criminal defamation and "insult" laws. "This Declaration seeks to adjust the statutes under which journalists may be prosecuted in court by decriminalising those statues," said the president in a speech delivered on 3 May to commemorate World Press Freedom Day. "All of these, and more, we will continue to do to advance the cause Of a free press and a more expressive society."