Karim: The article mentioned charges relating to 2006. I am not sure if they released any further details. If these folks have been in custody since 2006 and are only being charged now then there is lots of questions to be answered. I am curious to know the details. -Abdoulie Sent from my iPhone On 12 Jun 2009, at 18:41, abdoukarim sanneh <[log in to unmask] > wrote: > Mr Jallow > The name of these individuals charged is not mentioned in the > article. Is it another bogus charges for framing them of a coup that > never happened. The news report seems recent. What is content of > this anti- terrorism laws? > > Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:04:56 +0400 > From: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Fw: Gambia charges 16 with trying to destabilise country > To: [log in to unmask] > > http://af.reuters.com/articlePrint?articleId=AFJOE55A03L20090611 > Gambia charges 16 with trying to destabilise country > > Thu Jun 11, 2009 6:48am GMT > BANJUL (Reuters) - Authorities in Gambia have charged 16 people > under anti-terrorism laws for trying to destabilise the former > British colony, a nation regularly accused of using arbitrary > detention to gag political opponents. > The 16 Gambians were charged at Brikama Magistrates' Court, 32 km > (20 miles) west of the capital Banjul, with "jointly conducting or > engaging themselves in an unlawful act which could have seriously > destabilised" the country in August 2006. > The charges, to which the men have pleaded not guilty, gave no > further details. > President Yahya Jammeh has ruled mainland Africa's smallest country > since seizing power in a bloodless coup in 1994. > Human rights organisations and press freedom watchdogs accuse his > security forces of using arbitrary detention and other abuses of > power to restrict freedom of expression and stifle political > opposition. > Earlier this year, the authorities arrested leading opposition > figure Halifa Sallah and detained him for more than 10 days. He was > released after Amnesty International said he was at risk of being > tortured in jail. > Last December a British missionary couple were sentenced to a year > in prison with hard labour for defaming Jammeh, a former wrestler > with a penchant for exotic birds who believes he has herbal > treatments that can cure AIDS. > © Thomson Reuters 2009. All rights reserved. Users may download and > print extracts of content from this website for their own personal a > nd non-commercial use only. Republication or redistribution of Thoms > on Reuters content, including by framing or similar means, is expres > sly prohibited without the prior written consent of Thomson Reuters. > Thomson Reuters and its logo are registered trademarks or trademark > s of the Thomson Reuters group of companies around the world. > Thomson Reuters journalists are subject to an Editorial Handbook > which requires fair presentation and disclosure of relevant interests. > > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To unsubscribe/ > subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web inter > face 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] > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ > > Beyond Hotmail - see what else you can do with Windows Live. Find > out more. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ 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] > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ > ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ 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] ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤