Samoan and Pacific media groups have reiterated the demand to repeal Samoa’s defamation law after a senior journalist was slapped with a criminal charge over a report involving police officers.
Samoa repealed its defamation laws in 2013 but reintroduced criminal defamation with harsher penalties in 2017. This statement was originally published on pacificfreedomforum.org on 24 May 2025. Samoa ...