West Africa: Law Student Detained for a Week Over Facebook Video

On February 10, 2026, Edwina Hawa Jamiru, a law student at the Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, was detained at the Cyber Crime Unit of the Criminal Investigative Department in Freetown, and released on February 17, 2026. This is according to a statement by AdvocAid Sierra Leone which announced that it had successfully secured bail for her following her one-week detention in relation to alleged cybercrime investigations.

Her arrest and detention was not publicly known until AdvocAid…