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A powerful and important book from a powerful and vitally important voice. Heres to more of this voice shaping the conversation about Liberia and Africa - for decades to come. -- Rachel Pulfer, Executive Director, Journalists for Human Rights, Canada Rodney D Sieh is the most committed -- nay, single-minded -- journalist I've ever known... fromhis youth in a blasted, brutalized Liberia straight through the horrors that forged him. For Sieh,journalism is a creed, a faith that offers salvation to a world in urgent need of it, and his story shows the high price of living without compromise. - Brooke Gladstone, Editor, WNYC Radio showOn The Media Civil war, coups and corruption, you name it, Sieh has chronicled it. This is his story: one of courage, principle and afflicting the powerful. -- Angela Quintal, Africa Program Coordinator,Committee to Protect Journalists

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Rodney D. Sieh is one of Africa's finest investigative journalists. As publisher of Liberia's leading newspaper, Front Page Africa, Sieh's explosive reports have led to arrests, prosecutions and investigations of prominent Liberian government officials. Sentenced to 5,000 years in imprisonment for a trumped-up libel charge in 2013, Sieh's arrest and jailing triggered an international outcry and highlighted the continuing existence of criminal libel statutes in Africa where politicians use the courts to intimidate and silence the media from exposing their corruption. The sentence prompted global outrage and it took considerable pressure from journalists with The New York Times, BBC, Toronto Star, Globe & Mail and others in the international journalist rights community championing his cause to help bring about his release. Sieh's work landed him among Reporters Without Borders' Information Heroes of 2014. He fled the brutal civil war in his homeland in 1992 for exile in The Gambia. As a reporter there for both his uncle Kenneth Best's Daily Observer newspaper and the British Broadcasting Corporation, his coverage about the deaths and disappearances that followed Yahya Jammeh's coup d'état on July 22nd, 1994, forced him once again into exile to London, where he fled in 1994. He later took refuge in the United States. Journalist on Trial is his first book.

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