Gambia: Daily Observer journalist still in detention
17.07.2006
Malick Mboob, a former "Daily Observer" journalist, is still in National Intelligence Agency (NIA) custody, 42 days after his arrest by the Gambian police force. He has been in arbitrary detention without trial far in excess of the 72 hours that the Gambian 1997 constitution stipulates, since his arrest on 26 May 2006.