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Breaking News: About 12 UDP Supporters Arrested by Paramilitary officers!
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Breaking News: About 12 UDP Supporters Arrested by Paramilitary officers!
Breaking News: About 12 UDP Supporters Arrested by Paramilitary officers!
Party Officials Protest To The Commonwealth Observers!
Detainees Claim Torture And Death Threats-As Paras Denied Them Food And Visitors!!
By Our Roving Reporter
About dozen of UDP/NRP/GPDP supporters were last evening arrested by
the paramilitary and detained at their headquarters in Kanifing, the Freedom Newspaper can authoritatively reveal. Among
the arrestees include a 17 year old boy, who was seen video taping the
UDP convoy numbering into over 40,000. The paramilitary officers some of
whom were said to be dead drunken could not withstand Darboe's cheering
crowd who chanted slogans for regime change in the West African
country. The arrest of these opposition supporters followed the
successful hosting of the UDP meeting held at the Sedaclub in
Latri-Kunda German yesterday.
  
Sos Jatta UDP'S Darboe Dr.Salim
The Freedom Newspaper reporter
visited the Kanifing paramilitary base, where some of the detainees
complained about torture and death threats issued against them by the
paras. The detainees also complaints about being denied food and access
to their families. An official of the police intervention unit accused
the detainees of trying to incite violence, a charge the opposition
flatly denied. The official told our reporter that the orders for the arrest of the
said opposition supporters came from the top while insisting that they
were not taking chances during the electioneering period. The officer
says they have enough men to counter any possible violence now and
after the elections.
Meanwhile, the UDP led alliance has
protested against what they called the illegal arrest of their men by
the police. They described the action as an action of provocation. An
official of the UDP led alliance told the Freedom Newspaper that their
supporters had always been law abiding and therefore describes the police's action
as uncalled for. According to the official, their party had lodged a complaint with the head of the Commonwealth observer team Dr.Salim and had
demanded for the unconditional release of the detainees. The official
also says they also contacted the Interior Secretary of State Baboucarr
Jatta to facilitate the release of the detainees. With barely few hours
to the Friday polls, the opposition supporters are still languishing in
jail. The Interior Secretary had not yet issued orders for the release
of the detainees. If not release today, the chances of the detainees
exercising their franchise would be hindered by their detention.
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Posted on Thursday, September 21, 2006 (Archive on Sunday, October 29, 2006)
Posted by PNMBAI Contributed by PNMBAI
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