Dakar — A high court judge in Gambia has convicted six Gambian journalists on charges of defamation and sedition.
The journalists have each been sentenced to a mandatory jail term of two years and must pay an additional fine of 250,000 dalassi - about 10,000 dollars - or serve a further two years in prison.
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