Legal academic says Samoa's criminal libel law should go

Legal academic says Samoa's criminal libel law should go

This comes after the president of the Journalists Association of Samoa and veteran Samoan journalist was charged under the Crimes Act on Sunday.

Legal academic says Samoa’s criminal libel law should go after charge

By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist An Auckland University law academic says Samoa’s criminal libel law under which a prominent journalist has been charged should be repealed. Lagi Keresoma, the first female president of the Journalists Association of Samoa (JAWS) and senior journalist of Talamua Online, was charged under the Crimes Act 2013 on Sunday after publishing an article about a former police officer, whom she asserted had soug…