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Gambia: Court Jails Six Journalists
allAfrica, 7 August 2009
Six Gambian journalists, including the editors of two independent newspapers, have been sentenced to two-year jail terms and each fined about U.S. $10,000 on sedition and criminal… Read more »
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Gambia: Jammeh Denies Govt Killed Journalist
IPS, 18 June 2009
Eight Gambian Press Union (GPU) executives and newspaper journalists currently detained by the country's National Intelligence Agency (NIA) were charged and hurriedly arraigned… Read more »
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Gambia: Are Gambian Journalists Under Siege?
Foroyaa, 17 June 2009
Monday 15th June, the entire Gambian Media Fraternity were struck with the news of the arrest and subsequent detention of seven (7) journalists including the Officers of the Gambia… Read more »
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Gambia: Seven Press Leaders Arrested Over Deyda Hydara Reaction
CPJ, 16 June 2009
The Committee to Protect Journalists called today for Gambia’s national security agency to release seven journalists it arrested on Monday. Read more »
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Gambia: Seven Journalists Charged With Sedition, Another Arrested
CPJ, 18 June 2009
A magistrate in the Gambian capital, Banjul, today charged seven journalists with sedition for criticizing President Yahya Jammeh’s televised comments about the unsolved 2004… Read more »
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Gambia: Why is Sam Sarr And Co Arrested?
Foroyaa, 17 June 2009
Foroyaa is a media house which strives to take an alternative approach to coverage of issues from that of the state media. The state media is instructed by Section 208 of the… Read more »
