For Fofana the balance has yet to be struck between freedom of expression and the right to reputation.

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Umaru Fofana heads Sierra Leone's Association for Journalists who brought the case to court.

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And in the interview with Mr Fofana, he said the group had been about to release the hostages, though they had been afraid of arrest.

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But France were a transformed team in the final 40 minutes and Wesley Fofana crashed over for a try -- making it three in three matches -- and allied to two more penalties by Parra leveled the scores.

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Meanwhile a group calling itself the "Rassemblement des Forces Democratiques de Guinee" had been phoning international radio stations, and a hitherto unknown spokesman, Mohamed Lamine Fofana, had been claiming the attacks were the work of the Guinean opposition.

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