On September 13, in Latia, a town in Liberia’s western Cape Mount county, a group of at least 30 men attacked Amos Omaska Jallah, a senior reporter with the privately owned The News newspaper, while he was covering a voter registration program, the journalist told CPJ by messaging app. Jallah said he filmed the group of men arrive in the town, where they tried to register to vote ahead of Liberia’s December 8 senatorial elections, and clashed with locals who attempted to stop them from registering illegally. Jallah said the group then turned on him, and men used sticks to beat him on various parts of his body, shoved him to the ground, and then let him leave the scene and go to a nearby hospital. Jallah received a deep cut on his head and sprained his left arm during the attack, and has returned daily to a hospital for treatment, he said. He added that the men also took his phone and money, and did not return them
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