Gambia: UDP Slams Denial of Permit to Hold Political Rally

1 September 2014

UDP leader Ousainou Darboe and members of the party executive Sunday called a press conference to announce that the police denied the country's leading opposition party a permit to hold a political rally at Cedar Club Latrikunda German.

The rally was to celebrate UDP's 18th anniversary, following the launching of the opposition party in The Gambia on 23 August 1996.

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