ATTACKS ON THE MEDIA, JOURNALIST AND HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST.

PRESIDENT JAMMEH’S FACE WAS REVEALED FROM 1996



Binneh s Minteh

New York University





It is interesting to know that the more we dig through archives on the Gambia, the more we see the face of the Gambian President. How about this piece fellow Gambian’s? Was Hakim quarelling with Deyda at that time? Certainly Nope.



Please read this piece and see how Yaya and his government targeted the media from 1994 to date.







February 26
All independent newspapers, LEGAL ACTION, CENSORED
The Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council (AFPRC) introduced Decree 71, which required all independent newspapers to pay a registration bond of 100,000 dalasis (US$10,000) and provide property as collateral, or face closure. Decree 71 extended Decree 70 (passed by the AFPRC on Feb. 14), which required only new independent newspapers to pay 100,000 dalasis to register. State-owned publications are not subject to either decree. All seven Gambian independent newspapers managed to meet the requirements of Decree 71 but were prohibited from publishing for the two weeks during which their affidavits were being reviewed. CPJ protested the imposition of the decrees to the Gambian government and urged that they be revoked.

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March 8
Ebrima Ceesay, The Daily Observer, LEGAL ACTION
Theophilus George, The Daily Observer, LEGAL ACTION
Deyda Hydara, The Point, LEGAL ACTION
Pap Seine, The Point, LEGAL ACTION
Sam Sarr, Foroyaa, LEGAL ACTION
Halifah Sallah, Foroyaa, LEGAL ACTION
Sidia Jatta, Foroyaa, LEGAL ACTION
Boubacarr Gaye, New Citizen, LEGAL ACTION
The editors and publishers of four independent newspapers were summoned to appear before the Banjul Magistrate Court to answer charges of violating Section 5 of the 1944 Newspaper Act by failing to submit their papers' annual registration documents. Into the first years of Yahya Jammeh's rule, no newspaper was charged for violating this provision in the act. Newspapers have been allowed to simply provide publishing information on their back pages. Now, Jammeh's armed forces provisional ruling council has made failure! to register a criminal offense, and is prosecuting those who do not comply. Those summoned on March 8 were: Ebrima Ceesay, editor of the Daily Observer, and Theophilus George, the paper's publisher; Sam Sarr, Halifa Sallah and Sidia Jatta, editors of Foroyaa; Boubacarr Gaye, editor and publisher of the New Citizen; and Deyda Hydara and Pap Saine, editors of The Point. The eight publishers and editors pleaded not guilty and were released on bond of 1,000 dalasis (US$100)
 each. The case is pending.







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