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Gambia: IFJ calls for the immediate release of jailed journalist
Sources News Release
http://www.sources.com/Releases/NR2717.htm
Publisher: International Federation of Journalists
Date Written: 28/04/2016
Year Published: 2016
Resource Type: Article
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has backed calls by the Gambia Press Union (GPU) for all charges against jailed radio journalist Alhagie Ceesay to be dropped and for his immediate release.
Abstract: The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has backed calls by the Gambia Press Union (GPU) for all charges against jailed radio journalist Alhagie Ceesay to be dropped and for his immediate release.
The journalist, manager at Taranga FM, was arrested last year and is critically ill in hospital.
In an open letter to the Attorney General and Minister of Justice the GPU noted that Ceesay has been held incommunicado detention for 29 days before he was arraigned in September 2015 and...
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