• Facebook
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
ManoReporters.com
ADVERTISEMENT
  • Home
  • News
    • All
    • Business and Economy
    • Politics
    • Health
    • Sci-Tech
    • Regional
    • Culture
    The main commercial vehicle park in Pujehun Town on 21st May, 2025. Image, Brima Sannoh, ManoReporters.

    “So Close, Yet So Far”: Sierra Leone’s Strained Struggle Against Human Trafficking

    Pujehun Town New Site on May 21st, 2025. Image, Brima Sannoh, ManoReporters.

    Sold, Exploited, and Forgotten: How Human Trafficking Still Plagues Sierra Leone

    A view of the heart of Sahn Malen, Pujehun District on 20th, May, 2025. Image, Brima Sannoh, ManoReporters.

    Sexual Harassment Persists in Sierra Leone’s Workplaces Despite Legal Reforms

    Sierra Leone to receive additional 20, 000 doses of Mpox vaccine this weekend

    Sierra Leone to receive additional 20, 000 doses of Mpox vaccine this weekend

    The National Islamic Mission (NIM) Primary School, Sahn Malen on May 6th May, 2025. Image, Brima Sannoh, ManoReporters.

    Sierra Leone’s Free Education Dream: Strained, Stretched, and Still Standing

    Ghana's High Commissioner to Sierra Leone, Senalor K. Yawlui, PhD (middle in smock) with the Police Local Unit Commander at Kabala (Koinadugu District), Chief Supt. Ibrahim Barry. Image credit, Ghana High Commission to Sierra Leone.

    Sierra Leone: Ghana High Commissioner conducts familiarization tour in north-eastern region

    Trending Tags

  • Special Reports
  • Opinion
  • Sports
  • True or False
  • Interview
  • ManoReporters TV
  • Tender and Job
  • Election 2023
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
    • All
    • Business and Economy
    • Politics
    • Health
    • Sci-Tech
    • Regional
    • Culture
    The main commercial vehicle park in Pujehun Town on 21st May, 2025. Image, Brima Sannoh, ManoReporters.

    “So Close, Yet So Far”: Sierra Leone’s Strained Struggle Against Human Trafficking

    Pujehun Town New Site on May 21st, 2025. Image, Brima Sannoh, ManoReporters.

    Sold, Exploited, and Forgotten: How Human Trafficking Still Plagues Sierra Leone

    A view of the heart of Sahn Malen, Pujehun District on 20th, May, 2025. Image, Brima Sannoh, ManoReporters.

    Sexual Harassment Persists in Sierra Leone’s Workplaces Despite Legal Reforms

    Sierra Leone to receive additional 20, 000 doses of Mpox vaccine this weekend

    Sierra Leone to receive additional 20, 000 doses of Mpox vaccine this weekend

    The National Islamic Mission (NIM) Primary School, Sahn Malen on May 6th May, 2025. Image, Brima Sannoh, ManoReporters.

    Sierra Leone’s Free Education Dream: Strained, Stretched, and Still Standing

    Ghana's High Commissioner to Sierra Leone, Senalor K. Yawlui, PhD (middle in smock) with the Police Local Unit Commander at Kabala (Koinadugu District), Chief Supt. Ibrahim Barry. Image credit, Ghana High Commission to Sierra Leone.

    Sierra Leone: Ghana High Commissioner conducts familiarization tour in north-eastern region

    Trending Tags

  • Special Reports
  • Opinion
  • Sports
  • True or False
  • Interview
  • ManoReporters TV
  • Tender and Job
  • Election 2023
No Result
View All Result
ManoReporters.com
No Result
View All Result

Sierra Leone: ECOWAS Court rules in favour of woman raped by Paramount Chief

Kemo Cham by Kemo Cham
July 18, 2022
in News, Politics, Health, Regional
0
Sierra Leone: ECOWAS Court rules in favour of woman raped by Paramount Chief

ECOWAS Community Court of Justice. Image, Center for Journalism Innovation and Development

Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

The Community Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has ordered the Sierra Leone government to pay reparation to a victim of rape.

ADVERTISEMENT

The woman was raped by a Paramount Chief in the southern Bonthe District, the case filed at the regional court shows.

The Court in its ruling on July 13th, condemned the Bio administration for failing to guaranty the victim her right to remedy, access to justice, and protection from cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. And the government was ordered to pay the victim the equivalent of $10,000 as reparation.

The incident occurred in 2019. The victim, who hails from Subu Village in the Gbap Nongobabulum Chiefdom, named the Paramount Chief of the area, Jonathan Ticker, among a group of men who raided her home, and raped her.

The chief reportedly led a group of men as part of an operation by the Poro secret society, to invade the village late at night in January 2019.

Documents filed at the court indicate that PC Tucker forced his way into the room where the victim was asleep and raped her as his men stood outside on guard.

The Chief denied the allegation, according to local media reports.

The case was filed in September 2021 by the Banjul-based Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA) on behalf of the Plaintiff.

According to IHRDA, the case was brought before the regional court after repeated failed attempt by the plaintiff, who was 17 years old at the time, to seek justice at home. It said that the victim reported the incident to the Sierra Leone Police, but local authorities failed to effectively investigate the offence and prosecute the perpetrator.

Campaigners said at the time that the case served as a litmus test for the government, coming after President Julius Maada Bio had declared a national emergency on rape.

The incident occurred in the home district of President Bio, who prides himself as champion against Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV). His wife, First Lady Fatima Bio, also leads a popular campaign against SGBV through her ‘Hands off Our Girls’ campaign.

The victim reportedly took several medical tests which proved she had been assaulted, yet there was no effective investigation, according to campaigners.

The Sierra Leonean campaign group, Human Rights Defenders Network, at the time issued a statement alleging political interference for the slow pace with which the police investigated the matter. It also cited accounts of police investigators been maltreated by local political authorities in an attempt to prevent them from pursuing the matter.

Sierra Leone was found wanting by the ECOWAS judges for contravening several regional and international human rights legal instruments to which the country is party, including the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

IHRDA’s Executive Director, Gaye Sowe, hailed the court’s ruling.

“We are happy that the Court has established Sierra Leone’s responsibility in this matter, and we hope that Sierra Leone would not only take steps to ensuring that the victim actually get reparation, but also put in place measures to curb prevalence of violence against women and girls with impunity in Sierra Leone”, Mr Sowe said in a statement released by the organization.

Tags: Sierra LeoneECOWASCommunity Court of Justice
ADVERTISEMENT
Previous Post

Marburg: Ghana confirms first cases of deadly viral disease

Next Post

Makeni: New state-of-the-art lab boosts public health surveillance in Sierra Leone

Kemo Cham

Kemo Cham

Next Post
Makeni: New state-of-the-art lab boosts public health surveillance in Sierra Leone

Makeni: New state-of-the-art lab boosts public health surveillance in Sierra Leone

Stay connected

  • Trending
  • Comments
  • Latest
State security forces man a checkpoint at an intersecition between State House and Siaka Steven Street in Freteown. Photo credit, Ishmail Kindama Dumbuya

Breaking: Sierra Leone gov’t says it ‘rebuffed’ attempted break into armory

November 26, 2023
Sarah Van Horne, Public Affairs Officer, US Embassy in Freetown. Photo credit, Courtesy.

Sierra Leone: US considering further actions after visa ban – Embassy spokeswoman

September 1, 2023
Anthrax Outbreak: Sierra Leone records first human cases

Anthrax Outbreak: Sierra Leone records first human cases

May 22, 2022
Former Guinea junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara and the two other close allies of his who are thought to have escaped from prison in Conakry on Saturday, November 4. Image by Guinea News.

Breaking! Guinea: Heavy gunfire reported in Kaloum, around central prison

November 4, 2023
Diabetes: The “Ticking Time Bomb” for Africa! Are we sitting on it?

Diabetes: The “Ticking Time Bomb” for Africa! Are we sitting on it?

0
Sierra Leonean on trial for war crimes in Liberia released

Sierra Leonean on trial for war crimes in Liberia released

0
Sierra Leone, France seek tighter cooperation

Sierra Leone, France seek tighter cooperation

0
Wellington Fire Disaster: Victims Benefit From Fullah Progressive Union Largesse

Wellington Fire Disaster: Victims Benefit From Fullah Progressive Union Largesse

0
The main commercial vehicle park in Pujehun Town on 21st May, 2025. Image, Brima Sannoh, ManoReporters.

“So Close, Yet So Far”: Sierra Leone’s Strained Struggle Against Human Trafficking

June 2, 2025
Pujehun Town New Site on May 21st, 2025. Image, Brima Sannoh, ManoReporters.

Sold, Exploited, and Forgotten: How Human Trafficking Still Plagues Sierra Leone

June 1, 2025
A view of the heart of Sahn Malen, Pujehun District on 20th, May, 2025. Image, Brima Sannoh, ManoReporters.

Sexual Harassment Persists in Sierra Leone’s Workplaces Despite Legal Reforms

May 31, 2025
Sierra Leone to receive additional 20, 000 doses of Mpox vaccine this weekend

Sierra Leone to receive additional 20, 000 doses of Mpox vaccine this weekend

May 30, 2025

Recent News

The main commercial vehicle park in Pujehun Town on 21st May, 2025. Image, Brima Sannoh, ManoReporters.

“So Close, Yet So Far”: Sierra Leone’s Strained Struggle Against Human Trafficking

June 2, 2025
Pujehun Town New Site on May 21st, 2025. Image, Brima Sannoh, ManoReporters.

Sold, Exploited, and Forgotten: How Human Trafficking Still Plagues Sierra Leone

June 1, 2025
A view of the heart of Sahn Malen, Pujehun District on 20th, May, 2025. Image, Brima Sannoh, ManoReporters.

Sexual Harassment Persists in Sierra Leone’s Workplaces Despite Legal Reforms

May 31, 2025
Sierra Leone to receive additional 20, 000 doses of Mpox vaccine this weekend

Sierra Leone to receive additional 20, 000 doses of Mpox vaccine this weekend

May 30, 2025
ADVERTISEMENT
Contact

info@manoreporters.com | Freetown, Sierra Leone

Contact

info@manoreporters.com | Freetown, Sierra Leone

© 2022 Powered by Manocommunication.com
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
    • Business and Economy
    • Politics
    • Health
    • Sci-Tech
      • Data
    • Regional
    • Culture
  • Special Reports
  • Opinion
  • Sports
  • True or False
  • Interview
  • ManoReporters TV
  • Tender and Job

© 2022 Powered by Manocommunication.com