The arrest and detention without trial continue to be monitored. As we enter the New Year, family members of the detained and missing people listed below have renewed their call for their release.
Journalist Chief Ebrima Manneh, a Senior Reporter with Daily Observer Newspaper, was reportedly arrested at his office in Bakau on 7th July 2006. His family said he left for work and never returned home. The family and his colleagues said they have made numerous efforts to establish his whereabouts but to no avail. The family said they have consulted all the concerned authorities and visited almost all the security installations across the country but are yet to locate him.
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