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Gambia News : Detained Gambian journalists released on bail
The Gambian High Court, sitting in Banjul, has granted bail to the
seven journalists facing trial for alleged sedition and defamation,
sources in Banjul confirmed to PANA Thursday.
The journalists were recently remanded at the country’s “Central
Prisons in Mile Two” on the outskirts of Banjul City by Justice Joseph
Wowo are to appear in court 10 July.
They were freed on bail after their team of lawyers, led by Antouman Gaye, fought hard to secure their release.
The
seven journalists, who included executive members of the Gambian Press
Union and the Managing Editor of Point Newspaper, Pap Saine, as well as
Sam Sarr of Foroyaa, are facing five-count-charges relating to sedition
and defamation.
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- It amazes me that learned judges who are supposed to be protectors, interpreters and enforcers of the law of the land, are turning the law on its head by allowing themselves to be used by the State to prosecute members of the fourth Estate who are lawfully doing their jobs.
The judges by tacitly agreeing to toe the lines of the government are mortgaging their conscience and failing in the discharge of their duties and when a case is finally brought against the lunatic Jammeh in a world court of competent jurisdiction, these lawyers will equally have a case to answer.
For justice to be seen as done in The Gambia and for its citizens to have confidence in the judicial system in the country, judges must be seen as dispensing justice without fear or favor. To do contrary will mean The Gambia as currently constituted, is nothing more than a banana republic that is being ruled by a mad murderous man.
(Posted on July 16, 2009, 2:38 AM freedom of speech)
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