Managing Editor Alagi Yorro Jallow to address Amnesty Int. forum!!!
The Managing Editor of the Banjul based Independent Newspaper, Alagi Yorro Jallow, will served as special guest speaker to the New York Based Amnesty International world press freedom day celebrations scheduled for May 4th. Mr. Jallow a veteran journalist, who suffered all kinds of persecution under Jammeh’s rule is expected to deliver a master piece speech at the New York forum. Below is an alert received by this paper on the Amnesty New York meeting. Please read on….
Thursday, May 4, 2006
7:00 - 8:30 pm
Where: Brooklyn Business Library, 280 Cadman Plaza West, Brooklyn, NY
Amnesty International Chapter 27 presents
a lecture to commemorate World Press Freedom Day
by Alagi Yorro Jallow
Managing Editor of the Independent
The Gambia
With an introduction by Karen Robinson, Director of Human Rights Education, Amnesty International Control of the media - and the consequent influence over peoples' minds - is often sought by those seeking to maintain power. Journalists in many parts of the world are harassed and charged with criminal offences. Newspapers are closed. Come and learn more about Amnesty’s work to defend press freedoms and hear the inspiring story of Alagi Yorro Jallow.
Alagi Yorro Jallow was awarded the 2005 International Press Freedom Award by the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression and the 2004 Hellman Hammet Award by Human Rights Watch for his reportage as Managing Editor of Gambia's The Independent newspaper. He & his staff have faced detention and physical assaults because of their work as journalists. Mr. Jallow also served as a correspondent for both the BBC and the International Press Institute and as a consultant to London-based Article 19.
This lecture is open to the public. Questions and RSVPs are encouraged to be sent to [log in to unmask] The Brooklyn Business Library is located at 280 Cadman Plaza
West and can be accessed by taking the trains 2, 3, 4, 5 to Borough Hall or the A, C, F to Jay Street/Borough Hall or the R, M to Court Street. For more information about AI Chapter 27, visit www.aibrooklyn.org Brooklyn Public Library - Business Library http://biz.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/index.cfm/bay/content.view/pcatid/6...
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Current Rating: 3.60 Rating: 3 MAY ALLAH CONTINUE TO BLESS JAMMEH AND THE HUMBLE GAMBIANS, AND MAY ALL THOSE EVIL WHO DOES NOT WANT TO SEE THAT PERISH Rating: 4 this guy who keeps showering useless prayers on jammeh should just shut the fuck up Rating: 3 MAY ALLAH CONTINUE TO BLESS JAMMEH AND THE HUMBLE GAMBIANS, AND MAY ALL THOSE EVIL WHO DOES NOT WANT TO SEE THAT PERISH Rating: 3 Thats ma boy From bunjan in churchills town to New York Rating: 5 Keep it up Yorro.
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