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Gambia News : Briton pleads not guilty in Gambia sedition trial

According to the charges Rene Beulen complained on Saturday at a police post that Jammeh "increased the taxi fares for white people" and that the Gambian leader was "too greedy and corrupt".

Beulen denied the charges when he appeared in court in Brikama, a city south of the capital. He was released on bail and the case has been adjourned until April 9.

Under Gambian law, sedition or the incitement of resistance to lawful authority is punishable by up to one year in prison and a fine.

In December last year a British missionary couple became the first foreigners to be slapped with a jail sentence for sedition in the west African nation.

They were ordered to serve 12 months in prison with hard labour after pleading guilty to criticizing the president.