Laye, yet another reminder of what Gambians that voted opted for. What happened to "All the NIA detainees are freed?" Just a load of you know what. Since Gambians are not interested, the Jammeh Show will continue. Chi Jaama Joe >From: RSF Afrique / RSF Africa <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: THE GAMBIA - Journalist missing since July being held in >provincial police station, newspaper discovers / GAMBIE - Un journaliste, >porté disparu depuis juillet 2006 , est détenu illégalement dans un >commissariat de province >Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:45:44 +0100 > >English / Français > >Reporters Without Borders >Press release > >15 January 2007 > >GAMBIA > >Journalist missing since July being held in provincial police station, >newspaper discovers > >The opposition triweekly Foroyaa has revealed that "Chief" Ebrima Manneh, a >journalist with the privately-owned Daily Observer newspaper who went >missing on 7 July, is being held at a police station in Fatoto, a small >town 400 km east of the capital. > >"Manneh must be freed at once," Reporters Without Borders said today. >"There is no law that allows him to be secretly held for seven months. The >scandal of his illegal detention has been compounded by the government's >cruelty towards his family in insisting all this time that it was not >holding him." > >The 12-14 January issue of Foroyaa said Manneh has been at the Fatoto >police station for the past three months and three weeks. Arrested at his >home by the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) on 7 July, he was initially >held at Mile Two prison in Banjul, the newspaper said. He was then >transferred to police stations at Kartong and Kuntaur before finally being >taken to Fatoto. > >During all this time, Manneh's family and friends repeatedly asked the >authorities if they were holding him, and they always denied that they >were. No charges have been brought against him. > >It is not known why Manneh was arrested shortly after an African Union >summit in Banjul on 1-2 July. Several members of the independent press were >arrested at the time for allegedly disrupting the event. > >----------- > >GAMBIE > >Un journaliste, porté disparu depuis juillet 2006, est détenu illégalement >dans un commissariat de province > >Le trihebdomadaire d'opposition Foroyaa a révélé que "Chief" Ebrima Manneh, >journaliste du quotidien privé Daily Observer qui avait disparu le 7 >juillet 2006, est détenu au commissariat de Fatoto, une petite ville à 400 >km à l'est de la capitale. > >"Chief Ebrima Manneh doit être libéré sans délai. Aucune loi ne permet sa >séquestration depuis sept mois. De plus, au scandale de l'incarcération >illégale de ce journaliste, s'ajoute la cruauté du déni des autorités >gambiennes vis-à-vis de sa famille", a déclaré Reporters sans frontières. > >Dans son édition du 12 au 14 janvier 2007, Foroyaa a révélé que "Chief" >Ebrima Manneh était détenu depuis trois mois et trois semaines au >commissariat de police de Fatoto, après avoir été conduit dans divers >centres de police depuis son arrestation, le 7 juillet 2006. Arrêté à son >domicile par la National Intelligence Agency (NIA, les services de >renseignements), il a été d'abord incarcéré à la prison Mile Two, à Banjul, >avant d'être transféré successivement aux commissariats de Kartong et >Kuntaur, puis Fatoto. Face aux demandes répétées de sa famille et de ses >amis, les autorités gambiennes ont toujours nié détenir ce journaliste, sur >lequel ne pèse aucune charge. > >Le journaliste avait été arrêté pour une raison inconnue, peu après la >clôture du sommet des chefs d'Etat et de gouvernement de l'Union africaine >(UA), qui s'est tenu à Banjul les 1er et 2 juillet. Plusieurs arrestations >avaient alors eu lieu au sein de la presse indépendante, accusée d'avoir >perturbé l'événement. > >-- >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 84 >Fax : (33) 1 45 23 11 51 >Email : [log in to unmask] / [log in to unmask] >Web : www.rsf.org > >¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ >To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L >Web interface >at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html > >To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: >http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l >To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: >[log in to unmask] >¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ _________________________________________________________________ Type your favorite song. Get a customized station. 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