Laye, yet another reminder of what Gambians that voted opted for. What
happened to "All the NIA detainees are freed?" Just a load of you know
what. Since Gambians are not interested, the Jammeh Show will continue.
Chi Jaama
Joe
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>Subject: THE GAMBIA - Journalist missing since July being held in
>provincial police station, newspaper discovers / GAMBIE - Un journaliste,
>porté disparu depuis juillet 2006 , est détenu illégalement dans un
>commissariat de province
>Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:45:44 +0100
>
>English / Français
>
>Reporters Without Borders
>Press release
>
>15 January 2007
>
>GAMBIA
>
>Journalist missing since July being held in provincial police station,
>newspaper discovers
>
>The opposition triweekly Foroyaa has revealed that "Chief" Ebrima Manneh, a
>journalist with the privately-owned Daily Observer newspaper who went
>missing on 7 July, is being held at a police station in Fatoto, a small
>town 400 km east of the capital.
>
>"Manneh must be freed at once," Reporters Without Borders said today.
>"There is no law that allows him to be secretly held for seven months. The
>scandal of his illegal detention has been compounded by the government's
>cruelty towards his family in insisting all this time that it was not
>holding him."
>
>The 12-14 January issue of Foroyaa said Manneh has been at the Fatoto
>police station for the past three months and three weeks. Arrested at his
>home by the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) on 7 July, he was initially
>held at Mile Two prison in Banjul, the newspaper said. He was then
>transferred to police stations at Kartong and Kuntaur before finally being
>taken to Fatoto.
>
>During all this time, Manneh's family and friends repeatedly asked the
>authorities if they were holding him, and they always denied that they
>were. No charges have been brought against him.
>
>It is not known why Manneh was arrested shortly after an African Union
>summit in Banjul on 1-2 July. Several members of the independent press were
>arrested at the time for allegedly disrupting the event.
>
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>
>GAMBIE
>
>Un journaliste, porté disparu depuis juillet 2006, est détenu illégalement
>dans un commissariat de province
>
>Le trihebdomadaire d'opposition Foroyaa a révélé que "Chief" Ebrima Manneh,
>journaliste du quotidien privé Daily Observer qui avait disparu le 7
>juillet 2006, est détenu au commissariat de Fatoto, une petite ville à 400
>km à l'est de la capitale.
>
>"Chief Ebrima Manneh doit être libéré sans délai. Aucune loi ne permet sa
>séquestration depuis sept mois. De plus, au scandale de l'incarcération
>illégale de ce journaliste, s'ajoute la cruauté du déni des autorités
>gambiennes vis-à-vis de sa famille", a déclaré Reporters sans frontières.
>
>Dans son édition du 12 au 14 janvier 2007, Foroyaa a révélé que "Chief"
>Ebrima Manneh était détenu depuis trois mois et trois semaines au
>commissariat de police de Fatoto, après avoir été conduit dans divers
>centres de police depuis son arrestation, le 7 juillet 2006. Arrêté à son
>domicile par la National Intelligence Agency (NIA, les services de
>renseignements), il a été d'abord incarcéré à la prison Mile Two, à Banjul,
>avant d'être transféré successivement aux commissariats de Kartong et
>Kuntaur, puis Fatoto. Face aux demandes répétées de sa famille et de ses
>amis, les autorités gambiennes ont toujours nié détenir ce journaliste, sur
>lequel ne pèse aucune charge.
>
>Le journaliste avait été arrêté pour une raison inconnue, peu après la
>clôture du sommet des chefs d'Etat et de gouvernement de l'Union africaine
>(UA), qui s'est tenu à Banjul les 1er et 2 juillet. Plusieurs arrestations
>avaient alors eu lieu au sein de la presse indépendante, accusée d'avoir
>perturbé l'événement.
>
>--
>Leonard VINCENT
>Bureau Afrique / Africa desk
>Reporters sans frontières / Reporters Without Borders
>5, rue Geoffroy-Marie
>75009 Paris, France
>Tel : (33) 1 44 83 84 84
>Fax : (33) 1 45 23 11 51
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