MONROVIA (AFP) – One of Liberia’s leading local daily newspapers has 
been shut down after its publisher was jailed for libel over a report 
about government corruption, its staff told AFP on Tuesday.
Rodney
 Sieh, managing director of Frontpage Africa, was taken into custody on 
Wednesday last week following a Supreme Court ruling that the paper 
should pay US $1.6 million (1.2 million euros) for libelling former 
agriculture minister J. Chris Toe.
The court ordered that the paper be closed down until the damages are paid in full.
“Law
 enforcement officers closed our offices on Friday. So I will say that 
today makes it two days since we stopped publishing,” Wade Williams, one
 of the paper’s editors, told AFP.
“The workers have all stopped coming to work because the building was locked by the court.”
Toe successfully sued the paper after Sieh wrote a story in 2009 accusing the minister of stealing government funds.
Williams said Sieh had been on hunger strike since his arrest on Wednesday last week.
“He
 has not been eating at all. People are talking to him to eat but he has
 categorically refused to do so. We are very worried because his 
condition is getting worse by the day,” Williams said.
Frontpage has been vociferous in its criticism of the government of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in recent years.
Sieh is expected to remain incarcerated until he pays the damages or Sirleaf intervenes.
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