Liberia, April 13 -- Monrovia- Prominent Liberian lawyer and human rights advocate Pearl Brown Bull has described the late mother of former Foreign Affairs Minister Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayan, Ma Watta as a "victim," using her funeral as a platform to raise serious concerns about due process, legal ethics, and the human cost of state actions in Liberia.

By: Willie N. Tokpah

Standing before mourners, Cllr. Bull recounted a troubling sequence of events surrounding the arrest of Ma Watta's son, Dee-Maxwell SaahKemayan, painting a picture of a mother overwhelmed by shock and grief in the face of what she suggested was an aggressive and insensitive state operation.

"Children of God, I stand here, becaus...