Bro Bambalaye,

Add the links below to your commentary. I do not know where we are heading
to with this now???


http://www.foroyaa.gm/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3003

http://www.foroyaa.gm/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3004

yj




On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 6:29 AM, A Jallow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> *President Yahrya Jammeh has succeeded in turning Gambia into a burial
> place for human rights.*
>
> Over the years, Journalists and Ghanaians staying in Gambia have
> disappeared, been murdered or arrested and detained for no apparently
> reason.
>
> Lots of Journalists have escaped into exile and those living in the country
> are practicing self-censorship as means of preventing arrests.
>
> Yahya Jammeh, President of Gambia, is a disgrace to Africa as a whole.
> Press freedom is just not visible in that country. He claims he will stay in
> power for over 1000years. Many Gambians believe their president will never
> be defeated through elections.
>
>  It was very difficult to believe that these inhuman atrocities are going
> on in Africa until a Journalist from Gambia came out to bravely confirm the
> whole story and added that what we are told were underrated.
>
> He also gave instance where Journalists including Deyda Hydara (a critic of
> the Jammeh’s administration) and Omar Barrrow were shot and killed by
> security agents. He also added that others have been arrested and detained
> incommunicado for long periods without charge and those who are charged are
> not given fair trials by the courts.
>
> Chief Ebrima Manneh, a reporter of a pro- government Daily Observer, was
> arrested on April 10, 2006 by the notoriously feared National Intelligence
> Agency (NIA) and up till now, the government denied holding him and has not
> made any effort to find his whereabouts  despite an eyewitness accounts of
> his arrest at the newspaper's premises.
>
> (Credit to:
> http://www.cpj.org/2009/07/cpj-asks-gambian-president-to-reveal-mannehs-where.php
> ).
>
> Lamin Fatty, a Journalist was convicted for publishing “false information”
> and until his conviction, he was held for 63 days without court order and
> charge. When he could not immediately pay the fine imposed on him by the
> court, he was detained again.
>
> The publisher of Foroyaa, Halifa Sallah, who was invited by the NIA to post
> a bail bond for Journalists arrested for defaming Jammeh, was detained
> overnight and released without charge. All these facts were brought to light
> willingly by the Journalist for Gambia.
>
> Innocent citizens, according to the Journalist, are accused of being
> witches and wizards and arrested for coming out after hearing loud drum
> beats. “The drumming is alleged to attract witches and wizards who are
> fighting against the government,” he explained.
> After all these inhuman activities, our African leaders sit with him and
> allow him to be a member of the African Union and yet do nothing about the
> current situation.
>
> He continued to say that foreigners also have their fair share of the
> abuse. Forty-four were allegedly murdered out of fifty arrested Ghanaian who
> were killed by Gambian soldiers who claimed they thought the Ghanaian
> migrants were hired insurgents brought into the country to topple President
> Jammeh.
>
> This issue gives fellow Journalists around the world a very important duty
> to monitor the affairs of Journalists in Gambia and also make sure this
> human abuse and blood sheared is stopped.
> How can a fellow normal human being do such a thing to other humans in the
> name of power? Journalists, let’s fight this mad man with our pens!
>
>
> http://dailyguideghana.com/newd/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4633&Itemid=291
>
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yj

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