-CIMOJ Says Her Detention Is Unlawful
The Liberian Government has come under immense pressure to release from further detention or house-arrest of former Vice President, Jewel Howard-Taylor, currently in a legal quagmire following multiple charges of drug-related crimes.
Citizens Movement for Justice, CIMOJ, a civil society organization, in a press statement on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, demanded the immediate release from further detention, or house-arrest, of the former Vice President, adding that if her accuser, the Liberian Government, does not have the convincing evidence to prove its allegations, keeping her in detention amounts to an infringement on her civil liberty and freedom.
In its statement, CIMOJ says it is a right seeking civil society organization that speaks on variety of national issues with no political loyalty to any political party or an individual.
The group emphasized that this generation and generations to come will hold the current Liberian government responsible if it does not stop the alleged infringement on the rights of Madam Taylor, one of Liberia’s well respected female politicians.
The CIMOJ’s strongly worded statement also called on the government to stop what it says is the continued harassment of former Finance an Development Planning Minister, Samuel Tweah, who the group noted, won the government in a high profile corruption case. “Let Mr. Tweah live in peace with his rights respected”, the statement said.
CIMOJ recalled that upon assuming state power, the former Finance and Development Planning Minister was one of the first ex-officials of the CDC Government that the Unity Party Government pounded on with multiple criminal charges.
The group has meanwhile urged the UP-led Government to stop what it calls the political harassment and intimidation of Tweah and concentrate on governing the Country rightly for the betterment of the society.
Madam Taylor, who served as vice president from 2018 to 2024 under Weah administration, was arrested on Wednesday, August 19, 2026, at the Roberts International Airport in Monrovia, while attempting to board a flight out of the Country.
The operation, conducted in close collaboration of the Liberia National Police, according to the Ministry of Justice, was intended to dismantle an alleged international drug trafficking and complex money laundering network.
