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.
President Jammeh Gambia.
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Gambia:
U.S. State Department on Death Row Executions
State Department, 28 August 2012
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Gambia:
Executions a Step Backwards for Country, Expert Says
UN News, 28 August 2012
An independent United Nations human rights expert today strongly condemned the recent execution of nine people in the Gambia, and called on the Government to refrain from executing… Read more »
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Gambia:
Nine Death-Row Prisoners Allegedly Executed
Cameroon Tribune, 26 August 2012
President Yahya Jammeh has vowed to execute all death row prisoners by mid September. Read more »
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Gambia:
Why the Execution of Death Row Inmates?
Daily Maverick, 27 August 2012
In the little West African state of Gambia, prisoners on death row have run out of time. Gambia's president wants them all killed, and quickly, to show other would-be criminals… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Stop Execution of Nigerians On Gambia's Death Row, SERAP Tells Jonathan
Vanguard, 27 August 2012
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent a public urgent appeal to President Goodluck Jonathan urging him to use "his position and the country's influence… Read more »
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Gambia:
President Asked to Retract Execution Order for Death Row Inmates
AI London, 21 August 2012
Gambian president Yahya Jammeh's reported comments that people sentenced to death in The Gambia will be executed by September must not be acted on, and must be retracted, Amnesty… Read more »
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Togo:
Anti-Govt Protests and Sex Strike Hit Togo
RFI, 27 August 2012
Anti-government demos and sex strikes in Togo and criticism of President Jammeh in Gambia are among the stories catching the eye in the African papers today. Read more »