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Gambia: Call to drop sedition charges against journalistsDate:27/07/2009 A Paris-based media group has called on the Gambian authorities to drop charges against seven journalists charged with sedition, notes a report on the News24 site...
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Monday, 27 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Gambia: Disappeared journalist should be released on 'Freedom Day'Date:23/07/2010 As Gambia celebrates ‘Freedom Day’ today (22 July), Amnesty International is calling on the Gambian authorities to release journalist Ebrima Manneh...
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Friday, 23 July 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Gambia: Freedom Of Expression Rapporteur On The GambiaDate:22/05/2009 The Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information in Africa at the African Commission on Human and People’s Right (ACHPR), Commissioner Madam Pansy Tlakula, indicated, in her activity report, submitted to the Commission’s 45th ordinary session, the Commission’s concerns on the harassment and intimidation of the independent media in The Gambia...
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Friday, 22 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Gambia: Gambia: Six journalists condemned to two years in Mile 2 prisonDate:11/08/2009 Amnesty International today expressed dismay at yesterday’s sentencing of six Gambian journalists, including three executive members of the Gambian Press Union, to terms in prison...
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Tuesday, 11 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Gambia: Gambian court convicts six journalists of seditionDate:10/08/2009 The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the highly politicized court verdict against six independent journalists today in the capital of the Gambia, Banjul...
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Monday, 10 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Gambia: Newly freed, Gambian columnist describes jailDate:09/09/2009 'On an ordinary Friday, Sarata Jabbi-Dibba, a reporter in the West African nation of Gambia, publishes her weekly column on women’s issues, “She She She, ” in the only independent daily newspaper here, The Point...
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Wednesday, 9 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Gambia: Only the Gambian president has press freedomDate:03/08/2009 On July 22, Gambian President Yahya Jammeh once again went after journalists in an interview on the country's only state-run television station...
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Monday, 3 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Gambia: President’s threats leave journalists no room for free expressionDate:29/07/2009 Reporters Without Borders is very concerned about the seven journalists, all members of the Gambia Press Union, who are being tried for criticising President Yahya Jammeh...
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Wednesday, 29 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Gambia: Seven journalists re-arrested in the Gambia Date:06/07/2009 'We issued the following statement in response to reports that the Gambia's High Court jailed six journalists today who were charged with sedition and criminal defamation...
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Monday, 6 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Gambia: Seven journalists re-arrested in the Gambia Date:06/07/2009 'We issued the following statement in response to reports that the Gambia's High Court jailed six journalists today who were charged with sedition and criminal defamation...
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Monday, 6 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Gambia: Seven journalists re-arrested in the Gambia Date:06/07/2009 We issued the following statement in response to reports that the Gambia's High Court jailed six journalists today who were charged with sedition and criminal defamation...
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Monday, 6 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Gambia: UN Declares 'Chief Manneh's Detention Illegal' Date:20/11/2009 The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has determined that The Gambia's arrest and continued detention of Chief Ebrima Manneh is unlawful under international law...
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Friday, 20 November 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
The Gambia: Amnesty International demands freedom for GambiansDate:17/07/2009 Freedom Day, which takes place on 22 July 2009, is a national holiday in Gambia...
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Friday, 17 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
The Gambia: ARTICLE 19 Calls on the Gambian Government to Respect Freedom of ExpressionDate:04/06/2009 ARTICLE 19 issued an oral statement at the recent 45th session of the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights (ACHR), expressing the organisation’s concern about continuing violations of freedom of expression in The Gambia...
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Thursday, 4 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
The Gambia: ECOWAS Court dismisses government's objections over jurisdiction in case of tortured journalistDate:09/07/2009 On 30 June 2009, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Community Court, hearing the case of torture brought by Gambian journalist Musa Saidykhan against operatives of the Gambia's notorious National Intelligence Agency (NIA), dismissed preliminary objections raised by the Gambian government, the defendant in the case...
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Thursday, 9 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
The Gambia: Journalists and Gambia Press Union ExecutiveDate:19/06/2009 Seven journalists and members of the Gambia Press Union (GPU) Executive have been held without charge by the Gambian National Intelligence Agency (NIA) since being called for questioning on 15 June 2009...
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Friday, 19 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
The Gambia: Regional group asked to intercede on behalf of missing journalistDate:24/04/2009 Reporters Without Borders has written to Dr...
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Friday, 24 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Gambia / Adjournment of trials facing editor of the daily The PointDate:19/03/2009 Editor of the daily The Point, Pap Saine, yesterday had two trials in which he is facing charges adjourned to later in the month...
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Thursday, 19 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Gambia must account for missing journalist Ebrima MannehDate:15/04/2009 Gambian authorities must authoritatively account for the whereabouts, health, and legal status of journalist Chief Ebrimah Manneh, left, who was taken into government custody by security agents in July 2006, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today...
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Wednesday, 15 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Gambian journalist under arrest over false storyDate:15/06/2009 The editor of a private newspaper in the Gambia has been in police custody since Wednesday because of a story that falsely reported the sacking of two government officials, according to local journalists...
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Monday, 15 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Gambian journalists freed on bail in sedition caseDate:24/06/2009 Seven Gambian journalists charged with sedition last week for criticizing the president have been freed on bail, while two other detainees were released without charge, local journalists and the press union told CPJ today...
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Wednesday, 24 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Seven Gambian journalists charged with sedition, another arrestedDate:23/06/2009 A magistrate in the Gambian capital, Banjul, today charged seven journalists with sedition for criticizing President Yahya Jammeh’s televised comments about the unsolved 2004 murder of editor Deyda Hydara, their defense lawyer said...
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Tuesday, 23 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Seven Gambian press leaders arrested over Hydara reactionDate:17/06/2009 The Committee to Protect Journalists called today for Gambia's national security agency to release seven journalists it arrested on Monday...
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Wednesday, 17 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Six Gambia Press Union journalists freed on bailDate:08/07/2009 The six journalists who were returned to Banjul’s Mile Two prison on 3 July were released again this morning on bail of 400, 000 dalassi (10, 800 euros)...
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Wednesday, 8 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Tenth Gambian Journalist Seized in June is Released on Bail Date:30/06/2009 A tenth Gambian journalist arrested since the government’s June 15 crackdown on the press was released Wednesday after two days of confinement in a Banjul cell...
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Tuesday, 30 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Uphold free expression, Gambia toldDate:24/06/2009 The African Union Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights on Tuesday urged Gambian President Yahya Jammeh to uphold the right to free expression after a recent media crackdown...
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Wednesday, 24 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
GambiaDate:27/07/2010 Domestic, regional and international obligations related to freedom of expression in Gambia...
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Tuesday, 27 July 2010Last Modified:
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Journalist harassed for reporting farmers' complaintsDate: 10 January 2012 "Police in Gambia are harassing a journalist for reporting farmers' complaints against a local official accused of mismanaging public resources...
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Tuesday, 10 January 2012Last Modified:
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
Gambia: Life sentence for distributing anti-government t-shirts violates free speechDate: 20 January 2012 "ARTICLE 19 is appalled by the conviction and prison sentence handed to Amadou Scattred Janneh, a former Minister of Information and Communication...
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Friday, 20 January 2012Last Modified:
Monday, 23 January 2012