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West Africa: SERAP, CDHR Ask Gambia to Implement ECOWAS Court Judgment

25 June 2008

Lagos — Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), and Committee for Defence of Human Rights (CDHR), have asked the Gambian government to immediately implement judgment of the ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja, which ordered release from unlawful detention, a journalist, Ebrimah Manneh, and payment of $100,000 to him as damages.

The groups, in a joint statement dated June 24 , 2008, signed by SERAP's Executive Director, Adetokunbo Mumuni and CDHR's President Olasupo Ojo, said "we welcome the sound judgment by the ECOWAS Court of Justice and strongly urge government of The Gambia to implement it fully."

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