Sorry abou some confusion in my last post.
I hope it's a little clearrer here:

Mathew K. Jallow gives the impression that we are about to see a fair trial and 
if they heed his advice, we may all sit back and relax:

 “As the trial of Fatou Jaw-Manneh begins, it is necessary to remind every 
actor on the government side that their duty is to the law; to uphold it and to 
preserve it. Any effort to skirt it would result to a loss of confidence in our 
judicial system, which could take years if not decades to recover from.”

The implications in the charge sheet are serious. The Government has charged 
Fatou Jaw Manneh with SEDITION (close enough to treason).Of course it is 
the intention of the accuser to nail the “evidence” of her seditious intentions 
onto to her as they nail her on the cross and show that her intentions have 
crossed the border between legitimate protest and the sort of incitement that 
did/ could threaten security and stability in the country.

To the extent of her wanting to overthrow the elected government by means 
other than the ballot – unlike Mr. Jammeh who first came by bullet, she is an 
angel, a Joan of Arc and there’s next to nothing that I’ve ever read in the 
Gambian press that should ever qualify her for heading a military coup – that 
would be first degree treason.
Litanies about mysteriously dead bodies, corruption, nepotism and violations of 
human rights occupy most of the opinion columns in the African press.

 Apart from some guy who once asked whether anyone was “ready to 
rumble” – my acquaintance is with a Gambian media which is sober in it’s 
criticism – sometimes harsh criticism, of the type one is likely to find anywhere 
in the free world and particularly in some places that are not yet, so free. The 
African temperament, when it expresses itself in art or speech tends to be 
passionate – even exaggerate - but I don’t think that Fatou, beautiful as she 
is, is a Queen Amina or Lady Aisha (r.a.) who raised an army against Imam Ali 
(a.s.)  (the Battle of the Camel)
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Queen+Amina&meta=

First question: What level of confidence do you have in the Judiciary – not in 
the qualifications of the judges, but their impartiality? To what extent is the 
Judiciary independent of the executive in the Gambia?
http://www.google.co.uk/search?
hl=en&q=the+Gambian+Judiciary&btnG=Search&meta=

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