The Publisher and Proprietor of the Awareness Times newspaper, Dr Sylvia Olayinka Blyden was last Friday 29th May, 2020 released from bail from the Female Correctional center after bail conditions stated by Magistrate Hannah Bonnie of Magistrate Court No. 2 were fully met.
Dr Blyden was Thursday 28th May given a still bail condition of Five Hundred Million Leones (Le 500,000,000) with two sureties that have property as four houses in the Western Urban jurisdiction with building permits attached to them, conditions that were fulfilled by her sureties.
The publisher was arrested and over detained in different cells at the Criminal Investigations Department for well over three weeks before she was later charged with ten counts charges for seditious libel, publication of false news, seditious libel and defamatory libel.
She also received charges of double seditious libels and defamatory libel, conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, doing an act tending to pervert the course of justice, and doing an act tending to pervert the course of justice.
Muckson Sesay, was also charged with one count for taking a picture of Dr Blyden’s interview and published it on social media. He was later released on Monday 1st June, 2020.
