As High Court Tosses Contempt Charges Gambia’s Attorney General and minister of Justice, Abubacarr Tambadou, has suffered another humiliating defeat in his feud with Yankuba Touray, a former minister in the previous government of Yahya Jammeh. Mr Touray is in state custody after his arrest in June for refusing to[Read More…]
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Gambia: Jammeh Must Stand Trial For Deyda Hydara’s Murder
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh, now living in exile in Equatorial Guinea, to be extradited back to Gambia to stand trial for the 2004 murder of Deyda Hydara, a newspaper editor who was the dean of Gambia’s journalists and RSF’s correspondent. RSF issued the[Read More…]
Supreme Court Tosses Ex-Finance Minister’s Attempts To Have Criminal Record Expunged
A former Gambian Finance minister who was jailed in the previous regime of Yahya Jammeh has lost his fight to get his criminal record expunged. Amadou Sanneh, national treasurer of the opposition United Democratic (UDP), was in 2013 convicted by special criminal court judge of sedition and sentenced to up[Read More…]
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