Posts Tagged ‘Gambia Press Union’

Gambia’s war on journalists

August 7th, 2009

jammeh_185News that six Gambian journalists have been jailed for two years for “ridiculing the head of state” signals that the country has become one of Africa’s worst abusers of press freedom says AllAfrica.com’s Brian Kennedy. (more…)

Gambia Press Union members in hiding

June 24th, 2009

The National Intelligence Agency (NIA) in Gambia has closed down The Point newspaper and forced two journalists and an executive member of the Gambia Press Union into hiding. Read more here

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