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Gambia: Court Sentences Five Former Spies to Death for Jammeh-Era Murder
RFI, 14 July 2022
A Gambian court has sentenced five former members of the intelligence service to death for the murder of a political activist during the rule of ex-dictator Yahya Jammeh. Read more »
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Gambia: The Vestiges of Yayah Jammeh's Misrule - As UNSR Calls for Protection of Defenders At Risk
The Point, 6 July 2022
A study on The Gambia has shown that the country still remains challenged in the protection of frontline grassroots defenders. This situation is notwithstanding the fact that there… Read more »
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Gambia: Nenneh Freda Challenges Govt to Respect Rule of Law
Foroyaa, 8 July 2022
Nenneh Freda Gomez, the Country Director of Global Hearts of Medical Mission (GOHMM), on Tuesday, July 5, 2022 tasked the Government of The Gambia to respect the rule of law. Read more »
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Gambia: The State Owes the Nation an Explanation
Foroyaa, 8 July 2022
A democratic government must ensure transparency, accountability and probity in all its undertakings. It is widely circulated in the media that the high court has not only ruled… Read more »
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Gambia: 'Witch-Hunting Exercise Was Politically Motivated'
Foroyaa, 12 July 2022
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Five Gambian Spies Sentenced to Death For Killing Activist
The Gambia High Court has sentenced the former head of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) Yankuba Badjie to death after finding him guilty of murdering Ebrima Solo Sandeng, an important figure in the opposition United Democratic Party, in 2016. Four others - the NIA's former operations chief Sheikh Omar Jeng and NIA officials Babucarr Sallah, Lamin Darboe and Tamba Mansary, were convicted on the same charges and sentenced by the Banjul court, reports Radio France Internationale.
Sandeng was arrested during an April 2016 protest against former leader Yahya Jammeh. He died in custody two days after he was beaten and tortured. His death galvanised a political movement that eventually ousted Jammeh, who ruled the tiny West African nation for 22 years.
"Justice is catching up to Yahya Jammeh's henchmen in Gambia and around the world and hopefully it will soon catch up to Yahya Jammeh himself," said Reed Brody, a lawyer with the International Commission of Jurists who works with Jammeh's victims.
Jammeh fled to Equatorial Guinea in early 2017 where he remains in exile, following his December 2016 electoral defeat to President Adama Barrow. Barrow in 2017 renamed the NIA, the State Intelligence Services.
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Justice is slowly catching up with those who abused or collaborated with abusers of human rights during the rule of Gambia's former president Yahya Jammeh. The International ... Read more »
