Alla vigilia del quinto anniversario dell’omicidio, ancora impunito, di Deyda Hydara, il co-direttore del quotidiano di Banjul The point, avvenuto il 16 dicembre 2004, Reporters sans frontières condanna l’ostruzionismo alle indagini da parte del governo del presidente Yahya Jammeh e l’incapacità della comunità internazionale a prendere posizione contro il fatto. “Esprimiamo la nostra solidarietà alla [...]
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Reporters Without Borders is relieved to learn that the six journalists – all members of the Gambia Press Union – who were given two-year jail sentences on sedition charges on 6 August were released yesterday evening from the prisons where they were being held, Mile Two and Mile Jeshwang, after receiving a pardon from President [...]
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Five of the six journalists who were jailed for two years on 6 August on charges of defaming the government – Emil Touray, Pa Modou Faal, Pap Saine, Ebrima Sawaneh andSam Sarr – were transferred from the capital’s Mile Two prison to Old Jeshwang prison in the north of the country on 10 August. The sixth journalist, Sarrata Jabbi-Didda, who [...]
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Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the two-year jail sentences that the Banjul high court passed today on six journalists for alleged sedition and defamation of the government. The six journalists, all leading members of the Gambia Press Union, were immediately taken away to Banjul’s Mile Two prison. “We will soon run out of words [...]
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Reporters Without Borders is very concerned about the seven journalists, all members of the Gambia Press Union, who are being tried for criticising President Yahya Jammeh. The verdict in the trial, held partly behind closed doors, could be issued today, just a week after Jammeh said outspoken journalists would be dealt with “severely.” “The press [...]
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Reporters Without Borders today expressed its relief after learning of the release on bail yesterday of the six journalists accused of “seditious publication” and imprisoned at Mile Two jail in Banjul. At the same time, Augustine Kanjia, of the daily The Point, was arrested. “The release from jail of these six journalists is obviously good news, [...]
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