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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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Web : www.rsf.org

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