Lesotho 2014 violations & victories
25 March

Commercial Court in Maseru, Lesotho interdicts former Lesotho
Times weekly newspaper editors, Mr. Abel Chapatarango and
Shakemen Muragi together with
the former senior political reporter
Caswel Tlali, from practicing as
journalists and publishing a newspaper.

30 August

Lesotho military took control of
police headquarters and jammed
radio and television stations during attempted coup.

23 September

The Lesotho Times and Sunday Express Editor, Lloyd Mutungamiri
and Senior Reporter, Lekhetho
Ntsukunyane, were arrested on
Sunday 21 September over a story
published in the Lesotho Times
edition of 19-25 September 2014.

14 November

Lesotho Television, a State television broadcaster run under the
Lesotho National Broadcasting
Service, was allowed to broadcast
brief coverage, for the first time, of
a High Court case.

18 July

Private radio station Ts’enolo FM
attacked by four unknown men
who assault a presenter on duty
named Mohau Toi and vandalize
radio equipment worth over ZAR
10,000.000.

8 September

Sunday Standard editor arrested
Outsa Mokone arrested and detained on charges of “seditious
intention.” He was released on appeal the next day.

24 September

The African Media Holdings (Pty)
Ltd and its newspapers, the Lesotho Times and Sunday Express,
have lost a court case in which
their company got an interim interdict to prevent a new tabloid, The
Post, from publishing.

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