Liberian courts resumed operations on Wednesday after lawyers called off a week-long boycott prompted by the detention of bar association president Emmanuel Wureh, news organisations reported.
Wureh was detained last week for "contempt" by the lower chamber of parliament, the Pan-African News Agency (PANA) reported. He was released on Tuesday after serving one week of the three-month sentence and paid a fine of about US $99 for referring to a legislator as "unworthy to represent the Liberian people", PANA said.
Two officials from Monrovia's lawyer's association, Marcus Jones and Ishmael Campbell, received similar fines for issuing statements in which they described parliament's action as "unconstitutional and excessive" and for calling the boycott. They were ordered to retract their statements and pay the fines within 24 hours or go to jail, PANA said.
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