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Breaking News:Public TV reporter freed after a week in secret police custody, then fired
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Breaking News:Public TV reporter freed after a week in secret police custody, then fired
Reporters Without Borders
Update
15 September 2006
GAMBIA
Public TV reporter freed after a week in secret police custody, then
fired
Dodou Sanneh, a reporter employed by the state-owned Gambia
Radio Television Services (GRTS), was freed yesterday and then
fired from his job after being held for a week at the headquarters of
the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) in Banjul. No charges were
brought against him.
"Once again a Gambian journalist has been thrown in prison,
manhandled and then released without any explanation," Reporters
Without Borders said. "Once again, no protest was made by any of the
countries with some kind of influence over Gambia. The cynicism and
cruelty of President Yahya Jammeh's government is fed by the
impunity he enjoys."
Sanneh was fired from his position as a GRTS reporter by
director general Momodou Sanyang. At the time of his arrest, he was
responsible for covering the presidential election campaign of the
UDP-NRP-GPDP, one of the two opposition alliances. The election is to
take place on 22 September.
The authorities never gave any explanation for his arrested.
Questioned by journalists while he was still being held, Fatoumata
Jahumpa Ceesay, a pro-Jammeh parliamentarian, and a NIA official
claimed that they knew nothing about the case.
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Posted on Friday, September 15, 2006 (Archive on Wednesday, September 27, 2006)
Posted by PNMBAI Contributed by PNMBAI
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