AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
PRESS RELEASE
18 January 2012
The Gambia must release four activists jailed for distributing anti-government T-shirts Amnesty International today called for the immediate release of four activists arrested over the distribution of T-shirts calling for an end to dictatorship in the Gambia. One activist, Dr Amadou Scattred Janneh, the country's former Minister for Information and Communication, was yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labour for treason. Modou Keita, Ebrima Jallow and Michael Uche Thomas were each sentenced to three years with hard labour for sedition.

Gambian Naturalized American Professor To Die In Prison After Slammed With Life Imprisonment!

By Pa Nderry M’Bai      

Author’s E-mail: panderrymbai@gmail.com

Raleigh, NC

Tel: 919-749-6319

Dr. Amadou Scattered Janneh, the former Information Minister, has been officially confirmed as a prisoner of conscience after a Nigerian judge sentenced him to life imprisonment on charges of plotting to dislodge the administration of dictator Yahya Jammeh through forceful means. The remaining accused persons were each jailed three years with hard labor by the court. Families, friends and loved ones wept in court as paramilitary police escorted the naturalized Gambian American citizen to prison. The verdict left the entire nation pondering about the rationale behind such a harsh sentence.  Printing a t-shirt advocating for a regime change cost Dr. Janneh his life.

WE KILLED DEYDA HYDARA—SELF CONFESSED JAMMEH HIT MAN TELLS FREEDOM NEWSPAPER!

We were instructed by President Yahya Jammeh on the eve of the Point Newspaper anniversary back in December 16^th 2004, to shoot and kill the paper’s Managing Editor Deyda Hydara, alleges a self confessed hit man for Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh during an hour long interview with the Freedom Newspaper on Saturday.

“I was part of the team that followed Mr. Hydra, and the other passengers on board his vehicle at the material time. I was accompanied by Major Sana Manjang, Ex Army Colonel Kawsu Camara, alias (Bombaredeh), Malick Jatta, Tumbul Tamba (Deceased), and co while Interior Minister Ousman Sonko coordinated the entire operation. We were armed with double barrel gun. This type of weapon is not part of the Gambia Armed Forces weaponry. The President personally instructed us to use the double barrel guns to avoid the army being linked to the incident. It was a well coordinated operation,” further alleges the Gambian soldier. Below is the full text of the transcribed interview we had with the self confessed Jammeh hit man.

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President Jammeh Makes More Sacrifices at Gunjur Shrine

The increasingly megalomaniac President Jammeh, who has now taken to human and animal sacrifice, has intensified his nefarious and superstitious practices with yet another visit to Gunjur Kenkeng Jamenghoto shrine. The self-proclaimed dictator was driving himself in a black Limousine. With a large motorcade and security detail in tow, president Jammeh Sunday bulldozed his way to the shrine down the coast with over a dozen bulls for sacrifice on the rocks in the sea.

CDS Massaneh Kinteh’s NDEA Agent Brother Dismissed!

There is a lot of backstabbing at the National Drug Enforcement Agency (NDEA).  We will tell you why in a minute.  Batch Kinteh, an NDEA agent, who is also a brother to the current Chief of Defense Staff Massaneh Kinteh has been sacked with effect from this past Friday. Batch’s dismissal has do with missing mobile phones belonging to an inmate he was escorting to Banjul for further processing, we learnt.  Mr. Kinteh left his charge office in Serre-Kunda, where he was ordered to escort the drug suspect to Banjul with a case file. On arrival in Banjul, Batch said he couldn’t find the two mobile phones entrusted to him, our source said.  Although, he admitted receiving the mobile phones at the NDEA Serre-Kunda Charge office but couldn’t account for it.