(JollofNews) – Critics of Gambia’s government are increasingly fearful of arrest, torture and imprisonment as the west African nation clamps down on free speech ahead of polls expected to land President Yahya Jammeh a fifth term, Amnesty International said Thursday. Opposition politicians, journalists, human rights defenders and religious figures have[Read More…]
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Amnesty Int’l Swipes At Gambia’s Jammeh
(JollofNews) – Gambian President Yahya Jammeh is blind to what international groups see as a deterioration of human rights in Gambia, an Amnesty International official says. Adotei Akwei, managing director for government relations at Amnesty International USA, said his organisation and other civil society groups will continue to publicise human[Read More…]
Gambia: Advice To A Tyrant
Who do you think you are? Just because you are Now our president You think that you are super-God No no, you are only human. We only gave you a mandate to rule And not a weapon to kill, torture and jail us. We have a right to criticise you[Read More…]
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