[2] Kamara and other staff have been threatened and imprisoned numerous times in the newspaper's history,[2] most notably in a high-profile seditious libel case following a suggestion that President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah's 1968 conviction for fraud made him constitutionally ineligible for high office.
[5] On 28 July 2005, Kamara's replacement as editor, Harry Yansaneh, died from a beating reportedly ordered by a member of parliament.
[6] BBC News described the case as sparking "wide public interest with pleas from media rights groups worldwide demanding his release".
[5] The Committee to Protect Journalists issued an appeal on Kamara's behalf,[7] as did Reporters Without Borders.
[5] After his release, he told reporters, "imprisonment has not broken my spirit to publish the truth or stand for the people's right to know".