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Juveniles in a police cell in a Sierra Leone, where women are being detained for owing debt .(Photo: Otto Bakano/IRIN)
By On Thursday, October 11th, 2012
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Many Sierra Leonean women who are unable to repay small debts end up in prison for want of decent legal representation:-Advocaid

 FREETOWN, 11 October 2012 (IRIN) – Many Sierra Leonean women who are unable to repay small debts end up in prison for want of decent legal representation after their creditors report them to the police, More...

Blyden Jenkins-Johnston (President of The Sierra Leone Bar Association, 2012)
By On Monday, July 23rd, 2012
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“The government should expedite the establishment and operation of a National Legal Aid Board”-Sierra Leone Bar Association

 By:  Poindexter Sama Membership of the Sierra Leone Bar Association in their last Annual General Meeting held at the Hill Valley Hotel has resolved, among other things, that government should expedite the More...