A Magistrates’ court in the Gambia has today remanded a teenage driver who seriously injured a Year Six student whilst performing a stunt near a school. Malick Badjie, appeared at the Bundung Magistrates’ Court where he pleaded guilty to reckless and negligent driving. He was remanded at the Mile Two[Read More…]
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Alagi Yorro Jallow: Ideas, Not Handcuffs: A Civic Response to Calls for Prosecuting Political Speech
Democracy is not polite. It is not sterile, orderly, or predictable. It is a chorus of contesting voices, sharp rhetoric, and sometimes provocative declarations. But when the agents of law begin to police speech before policing actual crime, democracy begins to suffocate under the weight of its own laws. In[Read More…]
Alagi Yorro Jallow: Freedom Is Not A Selective Principle
In a democracy, criticism sharpens convictions. Speech challenges orthodoxy. What we must never tolerate is moral inconsistency disguised as civic righteousness. Mr. Pa Njie Girigara’s recent appeal to President Barrow to silence former President Yahya Jammeh’s political commentary is not the cry of a democrat—it is the echo of a[Read More…]
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