NPP condemns one-year jail term for TikToker Camilla Alhassan, says free speech is ‘not a crime’

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has condemned the one-year prison sentence handed to TikToker Camilla Alhassan, describing it as a troubling signal of growing intolerance and a criminalisation of free expression under President John Dramani Mahama’s administration. The Accra Circuit Court on Thursday, July 16, 2026, convicted the 43-year-old content creator on charges of offensive conduct after she pleaded guilty to publishing videos alleging, without evidence, that President Mahama had buried…