Sierra Leone moves in suspicion journalist, police remove films - World News

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The police in Sierra Leone have dropped the charges against journalist Sophie van Leeuwen. This was reported by her employer RTL Nieuws. The Africa correspondent was arrested on Thursday at a roadblock in Freetown. She was interrogated for two days by the criminal intelligence service. Her lodgings were searched and her passport, laptop and telephone were confiscated. Espionage Van Leeuwen was suspected of espionage and, according to the police,…

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The Africa correspondent for RTL was arrested in Sierra Leone on Thursday on suspicion of espionage. There she reported on the Dutch drug criminal 'Bolle Jos'.

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Sierra Leone pulls suspensions against Dutch journalist, may land out again - World News

Sierra Leone pulls the suspicions against the Dutch journalist Sophie van Leeuwen. The correspondent of RTL News was arrested last week in the African country on suspicion of espionage. That suspicion is now off the table, so Van Leeuwen can leave the country. Her employer reports that. ttn-42

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RTL News Africa correspondent Sophie van Leeuwen is allowed to leave Sierra Leone. She was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of espionage. She also allegedly did not have the right papers to make journalistic productions in the country. Those charges have been dropped.