Gambia: More Prisoners Risk Execution

The rights group Amnesty International is warning that more prisoners in the Gambia risk execution following official confirmation that nine other death row inmates were put to death last week.

"One can only imagine the terror the death row inmates and their families are facing knowing that at any moment they could be pulled from their cells and put in front of a firing squad," the group laments.

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President Jammeh Gambia.



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  • O. Saydee-Zarthy Sayweah
    Aug 29 2012, 10:55
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    If the law calls for that, yes he is right. Instead of hudge criticisms from the French and Nigerian governments, and Amnesty International, the international community should play the role of encouraging the government and the people to conduct a referendum which will seek the admendment, or modify that particular part of the constitution.

  • T1P
    Sep 7 2012, 11:27
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    It's interesting, when Jammeh holds a nation stable for almost 2 decades people praise, but when crime goes up and he tries to control it, then people criticize him. The woman who part of the executions, what right did she have to pour boiling oil on her husband? Then, the USA regularly executes death row inmates, a good number without fair trial. And what about the KSA? Does it not execute people on a regular basis? And China? or the UAE? Why then make such a big noise when this president wants to protect the ordinary Gambian civilian from the growing number of crimes? Jammeh doesn't have to worry too much about his political opponents, they are already their own worst enemies, but here is a president trying to keep crime at bay and a country moving forward, would it be better if we had another Zimbabwe where people are sent starving to near death? Or the Congo where people can't secure their lives for the next day? Yes Gambia is small and maybe that's why some have the guts to say the things they do, but so far Gambia has not gone begging for food like so many other countries do, at least let's see such positives before committing ourselves to such blatant hypocrisy.

  • mbcolley
    Aug 29 2012, 17:24
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    America your statement to the Gambia government is laughable when one reads it. Set an example for yourself. Your internal and external laws. None of these are favourable to human right. You not dealing with human right but your interest right from the whole world. What is human right and how you performing it? You have a law of death penalty, is it? Do you have right to do that? and why are you doing it? How many people you killed innocently internaly and externally. The world supper powers are distabilizing the freedom of the world but they take the interest of themself and that what they call freedom and human right. We Gambian dont want to live in state of criminals killing people in town. Yahya Jammeh dont kill them without a reason. He has a reason like you have reasons of invading other states and killing them of no ground. Leave Gambia in Peace and let peace and stability of the nation go ahead. No comment but look upon your doings. Thank you mr supper power.

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