Gambia: Treason Trial Reaches Climax

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The three counts criminal charges of treason filed in against the former chief of Defence Staff (CDS) of the Gambia Armed Forces (GAF) Lang Tombong Tamba and seven other accused persons before the presiding judge, Justice Emmanuel Amadi of the High Court, draws to an end as the last accused person Youseff Ezzedine, entered into his defence.

Youseff Ezzedine, the eighth accused, last Friday entered into his defence at the end of the evidence-in-chief adduced by the seventh accused Abdoulie Joof alias Lie Joof, who started giving his evidence on Thursday and ended on Friday the 11th of June 2010.

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