Lesotho article alleged the Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS) was planning to charge Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) Commander Lieutenant General Tlali Kamoli, Deputy Prime Minister Mothetjoa Metsing and several other high-ranking LDF, LMPS and government officials with high treason and murder after the attempted coup. On Sunday 21 September, the Lesotho Times and Sunday Express Editor, Lloyd Mutungamiri and Senior Reporter, Lekhetho Ntsukunyane, were arrested. Police informed the pair they were being detained because of the story, ‘Top officials face high treason charges’ and would be charged with defamation under Penal Code of 2011, Section 104. CENSORSHIP AND BANNING Radio and televisions jammed during attempted ‘coup’ On 30 August 2014, just after Prime Minister Thomas Thabane fled to South Africa, the Lesotho military reportedly took control of police headquarters and jammed radio, television and telephone signals. Only one station, Lesotho Catholic Radio FM, was not jammed and all signals were back online by the middle of that same day. Victory for media pluralism In the midst of the declining state of media freedom witnessed throughout 2014, we were pleased to see the overturning of an interim interdict against a new newspaper, which had been granted earlier in the year. On 5 March 2014, the Commercial Court in Maseru, Lesotho, interdicted the former Lesotho Times weekly news- 34 So This is Democracy? 2014 paper editors, Abel Chapatarango and Shakemen Muragi together with the former senior political reporter Caswel Tlali, from practicing as journalists and publishing a newspaper – The Post. Basildon Peta, the Chief Executive Officer and Director of all the applicants, argued the three respondents formed a company called The Post (Pty) Ltd while they were still under his employ and had plotted to steal his employees and go into unlawful competition with his companies. The 12 months interdict, which was applied from September 2013 and scheduled to end in August 2014, was sought by African Media Holdings (Pty) Ltd, Lesotho Times (Pty) Ltd and Sunday Express (Pty) Ltd. The restraint also barred the three journalists and The Post (Pty) Ltd from carrying on the profession of journalism and publishing business in Lesotho for 36 months and twenty four months for Chapararongo and Mugari. The interdict further prevented them from carrying such a business within a radius of two hundred (200) kilometres from the offices of the African Media Holdings (Pty) Ltd which owns Lesotho Times and Sunday Express. On 24 October 2014 the Court of Appeal of Lesotho set aside the decision of the lower court, The High Court of Lesotho. The Post came into circulation in Lesotho in November, bringing the number of weekly newspapers in Lesotho to seven.