Liberia: Court Arrests Ambassador-Designate to France Over Criminal Coercion Allegations

The Monrovia City Court has arrested Liberia’s Ambassador-Designate to France, Teeko Tozay Yorlay, on charges of criminal coercion and disorderly conduct. The arrest stems from allegations that Yorlay, in 2022, used his Facebook page to post defamatory messages accusing Wilmot Smith, the former Deputy Director General for Information Coordination at the Liberia Institute of Statistics and Geo-Information Services (LISGIS), of being a “criminal.”

Following his arrest, Yorlay was formally charged…