Dear Attorney General and minister of Justice and the Inspector General of Police, drop the charges against Westminister Foundation For Democracy representative in the Gambia, Madi Jobarteh. Questions of constitutionality aside, this action further undermines the already dwindling democratic space in which freedom of expression and civil society operates in[Read More…]
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Alagi Yorro Jallow: Gambia’s National Assembly: Democracy At Work
The purpose of the National Assembly is to instill pride into electorates or people who were sinking into a self-destructive inferiority complex due to years of abuse and suppression. It is quite challenging to hear and read the kind of things they spoke about as lawmakers – deeply reflective, extensively[Read More…]
Gambia: Police Extends Activist’s Bail Again
Police in the Gambia have for the third time extended the bail of an activist who was charged last week with publishing and broadcasting false news. Madi Jobarteh, a civil society leader, was detained last week at the Kairaba Police Station after he decried in a media interview the killings[Read More…]
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