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Gambia News : Dutch man pleads guilty to Gambian sedition charges

According to the charge, Rene Beulen told police officials that "Gambian President Yahya Jammeh increased taxi fares for white people" and that he was "too greedy and corrupt."

Following the guilty plea, judge Pa Harry Jammeh, a close relative of the president, adjourned the case until Thursday when he will hand down judgment.

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 criticising the president.