Baba, check with Waa to confirm the story, since, he is the new adviser for HE, by his recent posture.  How soon he forgot the railroad carvings on his back at the hands of Yaya.  These and many like it are reminders of what some Gambians blindly or willfully champion.  With folks like Manneh held illegally and under terrible conditions, how do our people form their conscience to talk about progress in The Gambia?  Even folks that have their relatives victimized by Yaya are seen to shamelessly support him.  Well, Yaya knows that for as long as he abuses and drives Gambians to gutter poverty, some of us will continue to hound him to his death.  One must be in serious denial to argue that Manneh is not under the dictatorship's claws.
 
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Joe   
 
> From: [log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]> Subject: [>-<] FW: CPJ: In Gambia, government-held reporter sighted at hospital> Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:36:48 +0000> > [ This e-mail is posted to Gambia|Post e-Gathering by "Baba Galleh Jallow" <[log in to unmask]> ]> > > COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS> 330 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10001 USA Phone: (212) 465-1004 Fax: (212) > 465-9568 Web: www.cpj.orgHYPERLINK> Tom Rhodes | Africa Program Coordinator | [log in to unmask] | (+221) 238-3247> Mohamed Keita | Africa Program Research Associate | [log in to unmask] | (212) > 300-9004> > In Gambia, government-held reporter sighted at hospital> > New York, July 30, 2007— The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned > by reports that a Gambian reporter, arrested a year ago and since held > incommunicado without charge or trial by the government, was briefly > admitted last week to Gambia’s main hospital in the capital, Banjul.> > “Chief” Ebrima B. Manneh, the State House correspondent for the private, > pro-government Daily Observer, was arrested without charge by plainclothes > security agents on July 7, 2006, in connection with an unpublished story > critical of Gambian President Yahya Jammeh. Authorities refused to comment > on the arrest until February, when police publicly denied holding the > journalist.> > “We hold Gambian authorities responsible for the well-being of Chief Ebrima > B. Manneh,” said CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon. “His continued > imprisonment without charge or trial and the official denial of his > detention in the face of contrary evidence is disturbing. We renew an urgent > call for the authorities to immediately release him.”> > On Wednesday, Manneh is said to have been admitted to the Royal Victoria > Teaching Hospital for treatment of high blood pressure—a condition he > allegedly developed in detention, according to U.S.-based Gambian news Web > site Senegambianews and the Ghana-based press freedom group Media Foundation > of West Africa. Agents from the Police Intervention Unit and prison > officials transferred the journalist after a few hours to a military clinic > in Banjul, according to the same sources, which cited an eyewitness account.> > A relative of Manneh, who asked not to be identified for fear of government > retribution, told CPJ that a separate source confirmed the hospital visit > for an alleged checkup. Manneh did not have a history of high blood > pressure, the relative said.> > Hospital spokesman Baboucarr Ngum told CPJ, “I have no idea who gets > admitted in the hospital,” without denying or confirming the reports. He > referred inquiries to the chief medical director. Police spokesman Suleyman > Secka did not return CPJ’s calls.> > The Media Foundation of West Africa recently filed suit against the > government of Gambia at the Community Court of Justice of the Economic > Community of West African States seeking the journalist’s immediate release > and compensation for his time spent incarcerated. A government > representative failed to appear at a July 16 preliminary hearing in Abuja, > Nigeria.> > The Committee to Protect Journalists named this year Gambia one of the > world’s worst backsliders on press freedom.> > > > CPJ is a New York–based, independent, nonprofit organization that works to > safeguard press freedom worldwide. For more information, visit www.cpj.org.> > _________________________________________________________________> Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! > http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/> > > > > ----------------------------gambiapost.NET------------------------------> ------LATEST NEWS FROM THE GAMBIA, NOW AT:>>-------> http://www.gambiapost.net/newspaper> 
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