Hydara?
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because the bill has already been passed by the
national assembly,” he said on Radio France Internationale
( RFI) on 17 December. “He wasn’t the
only critic”, he added. “There were also members
of the national assembly who were vehemently
opposed to it, even some members of the ruling
party voted against it and the other independent
newspapers also criticized the bill, so I don’t see
any link between the law and the shooting.”
The Reporters Without Borders representative
is not in a position to say at the end of this visit
that Hydara was working on a particularly sensitive
subject or that a private dispute had pitted
him against anyone in particular. “He was used to
being threatened, by letter or phone,” his partner
Saine said. “It had even become the subject of jokes.”
The only recent threats Hydara had publicly
alluded to were anonymous telephone threats. He
had mentioned them to a close friend during two
lunches, on 13 and on 15 December, the eve of his
death. According to Badjie, the police inspector
general, Hydara said the threats came from “those
who don’t like what I publish.”
Conclusions and recommendations
Everything suggests that Deyda Hydara was murdered
by well-organised professionals in a premeditated
operation. As his partner, Pap Saine, should
also have been in his car that evening, The Point’s
entire management may have been targeted. The
manner in which the shots were fired at the car indicates
there may have been a desire to kill everyone
inside. The context of this murder includes the
fact that individuals claiming to support President
Jammeh had already threatened leading representatives
of the independent press in Gambia.
In view, inter alia, of the strong similarities in
method of operation, it is not unreasonable to
presume a link between Hydara’s murder, the attempted
murder of lawyer Ousman Sillah, the abduction
of Abdoulie Sey, the arson attack on The
Independent and the arson attack on Ebrahima
Sillah’s home. Reporters Without Borders noted
during its visit that most of the persons it talked to,
both journalists and others, regard the police with
suspicion. Most of the witnesses cited in this report
were afraid of being questioned by the authorities
as they were convinced that the state, in one way
or another, was involved in Hydara’s murder.
Reporters Without Borders therefore recommends
the immediate creation of an independent commission
of enquiry to establish the circumstances
of Hydara’s murder and determine who was responsible,
with guarantees for the investigation’s
impartiality and the protection of witnesses.
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