Gambia

Media Release

December 15, 2008

Four Years After Journalist’s Murder, IFJ and FAJ Call for an Independent Investigation into the Death of Deyda Hydara

Gambia UPDATE: Gambian’s minority leader asks the government to free Chief Ebrima Manneh

On July 7, 2008 Chief Ebrima Manneh, a Gambian journalist, will be spending 730 days in detention in an undisclosed location in Gambia. The continued detention demands that his family, colleagues and human rights advocates continue to pressure the Gambian authorities about his whereabouts.

Gambia ALERT: Newspaper journalist violently attacked

Justice Momodou Darboe, a journalist with The Point, a Banjul-based privately-owned independent daily newspaper, was violently attacked by an armed man on July 1, 2008.

Darboe suffered serious body injuries.

Detained manager granted bail, his passport confiscated

The Kanifing Court trying Dida Halake, former Managing Director of the Observer Company Limited, publishers of the pro-government Daily Observer newspaper, on June 25, 2008 granted him bail after almost two weeks in detention.

Gambia UPDATE: Halake case dismissed, he remains in detention

A Banjul Magistrate court presided over by Buba Jawo on June 23, 2008 dismissed the case of sedition preferred against Dida Halake, detained former Managing Director of the pro-government Daily Observer newspaper.

Press Statement:

MFWA urges ECOWAS leaders to pressure President Jammeh to respect ECOWAS court order

Gambia ALERT: Opposition newspaper journalist detained overnight

In a landmark decision delivered on June 5, 2008, The Community Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in Abuja, Nigeria declared the arrest and detention of Chief Ebrima Manneh illegal and ordered the Gambian authorities to immediately release him.