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Denial of justice

Norbert Zongo and Deyda Hydara – symbols of impunity

Published on 14 December 2012Read

Watched and threatened

Thugs threaten to kill journalist, what are authorities doing?

Published on 15 November 2012Read

Gambia

Charges dropped against two journalists

Reporters Without Borders notes that the authorities yesterday dropped charges of conspiracy and inciting violence against two journalists, (...)

Published on 24 October 2012 Read

Gambia

Month of censorship, harassment and threats for media from Jammeh

Gambia was in the headlines last month when President Yahya Jammeh, a former army lieutenant who seized power in a 1994 coup, announced that 47 (...)

Published on 28 September 2012 Read

Gambia

Justice minister urged to prove claim that missing journalist is still alive

Reporters Without Borders calls on Gambian justice minister Edward Gomez to quickly produce evidence of his claim that “Chief” Ebrima Manneh, a (...)

Published on 11 October 2011 Read

Gambia

Radio allowed to resume broadcasting after being closed for a month

Community radio Teranga FM has been allowed to resume broadcasting, one month after it was ransacked by state security agents and ordered to (...)

Published on 18 February 2011 Read

Gambia

Six years after journalist’s murder, authorities urged to let media breathe

On the sixth anniversary of leading Gambian journalist Deyda Hydara’s still unsolved murder, Reporters Without Borders appeals to the authorities (...)

Published on 16 December 2010 Read

Gambia

International community urged to react five years after prominent journalist’s murder

On the eve of the fifth anniversary of the still unpunished murder of Deyda Hydara, the joint editor of the Banjul-based daily The Point, on 16 (...)

Published on 15 December 2009 Read

Gambia

Six Gambia Press Union journalists pardoned and released

Reporters Without Borders is relieved to learn that the six journalists – all members of the Gambia Press Union – who were given two-year jail (...)

Published on 4 September 2009 Read

Gambia

Reporters Without Borders posts statement that led to two-year jail terms for six journalists

Reporters Without Borders reiterates its deep concern about six journalists who are still in prison after receiving two-year jail sentences from (...)

Published on 19 August 2009 Read