Why MFWA Legal Fund matters to Ghana’s democracy

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A writ of summons! An injunction! A criminal charge! These are different from censorship; they are legally allowable restrictions that leave Ghanaian journalists calculating what telling the next story might cost in recent times. Journalism then becomes a legal liability with its cost borne not only by the journalist, but by a public that may never hear the stories deservedly guaranteed by Article 21(1)(f) of the…