Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007
From: Burning Spear Uhuru Publications
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On March 6, 2007, Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Director of the
Africanist Movement a regional African Internationalist
organization based in Sierra Leone and several neighboring
"countries" was stopped while driving in Freetown, capital
of Sierra Leone. The two police women who stopped the car
carrying Chernoh Alpha M. Bah and two other persons said
they got a radio message to stop the car for previously
refusing a police order to stop.

   The men were detained for four hours by the police and the
car's driver had his license confiscated by the police. The
men were charged with ¡§defying police officers¡¨ and
¡§driving without paying attention.¡¨

   The police have told them that they must come to the
police station on March 7 at 10 am to answer ¡§certain
questions¡¨ before their court hearing at 2 pm.

   The charges are completely false. They never disobeyed a
police order to stop as should be obvious by the fact that
they did stop for the police women when they were asked to
do so.
   The attack on Chernoh Alpha M. Bah is directly tied to his
political activities in the region, especially in
Guinea-Conakry where the Africanist movement has played a
role in protesting the neocolonial regime presiding over the
growing emiseration of the people there.

   The fact is that the demands of the Africanist movement
calling for economic, political and social justice in
Guinea-Conakry have made all the neocolonialist governments
in the region nervous because of the obvious implications
they have for all of the neo-colonial regimes and their
imperialists sponsors. This is especially true for Sierra
Leone that only recently suffered a spontaneous teachers'
strike.

   The African Socialist International is organizing a
call-in to Sierra Leone ambassadors around the world with
the following demands.

   The immediate cessation of the harassment of Chernoh Alpha
M. Bah and the Africanist movement.

   All charges be dropped and that the security of Chernoh
Alpha M. Bah, the men arrested with him, as well as the
entire membership of the Africanist movement be guaranteed
by the government.

   The Africanist movement and the people of Sierra Leone be
allowed the rights of freedom of speech, press and political
association.

   For more information, contact the African Socialist
International:

   Omali Yeshitela, ASI Chairman
1245 18th Avenue South St.
Petersburg, Florida 33705 USA

   Luwezi Kinshasa, ASI Secretary-General
BILT Mansions
4-16 Deptford Bridge
London SE8 4HH
United Kingdom
077 8412 1709 (cell)
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   www.asiuhuru.org/guinea

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