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Reporters Without Borders
Update

20 September 2007

GAMBIA

Government press officer freed on bail but co-defendant still held

Presidential press officer Mam Sait Ceesay was released yesterday  
from Mile Two prison in Banjul after paying bail of 200,000 dalasis  
(6,730 euros) but co-defendant Malick Jones, a producer with state- 
owned Gambia Radio and Television Services (GRTS), is still held  
because he could not raise the bail money.

They were arrested on 9 September for wrongly informing the pro- 
government Daily Observer newspaper that President Yahya Jammeh had  
fired his press and public relations director. Reporters Without  
Borders has been told they are also alleged to have provided  
information to Freedom Newspaper, a US-based website that is very  
critical of the Gambian government and claims to have sources inside  
the president’s office.

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GAMBIE

L’attaché de presse de la présidence remis en liberté sous caution,  
son coaccusé toujours en détention

Mam Sait Ceesay, chargé de communication de la présidence gambienne,  
a quitté la prison de Mile Two, à Banjul, le 19 septembre 2007, après  
avoir payé une caution de 200 000 dalasis (environ 6730 euros), a  
appris Reporters sans frontières.

Son coaccusé, Malick Jones, producteur de la chaîne publique Gambia  
Radio and Television Services (GRTS), reste en détention, faute  
d’avoir pu réunir l’argent nécessaire.

Les deux hommes ont été arrêtés le 9 septembre pour avoir informé le  
quotidien progouvernemental Daily Observer du prétendu limogeage du  
directeur de la presse et des relations publiques du président Yahya  
Jammeh, ce qui s’est révélé faux. Selon les informations de Reporters  
sans frontières, Malick Jones et Mam Sait Ceesay sont également  
accusés d’avoir transmis l’information au site Internet d’opposition  
basé aux Etats-Unis, Freedom Newspaper, connu pour ses critiques  
virulentes du gouvernement gambien et qui se vante d’avoir des  
sources au sein de la présidence.

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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 76
Fax : (33) 1 45 23 11 51
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