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Gambia News : Rule of terror as the Gambia holds journalist for more than 730 days
A sub-regional media freedom watchdog, Media
Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Monday decried "the continued
detention of Gambian journalist Chief Ebrima Manneh", saying he has
spent "730 days in detention in an undisclosed location in the Gambia,"
an MFWA communique has revealed.
Manneh disappeared 7 July 2008 and human rights groups believe that the journalist was detained by Gambian security personnel.
According to the MFWA, the continued detention demands
that Manneh’s family, colleagues and human rights advocates should
continue to pressure the Gambian authorities about his whereabouts.
It said "The disappearance of the 30-year-old
journalist has left his mother and father in a state of hopeless
devastation and continues to put fear in journalists and other citizens
of the Gambia."
"All this is giving credence to the rumour that Manneh
had been either murdered or brutally tortured that his captors are
afraid that releasing him would only provide evidence of their
brutalities."
Meanwhile, the Community Court of Justice of the
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), sitting in Abuja,
Nigeria, had 5 June 2008 declared the detention of the journalist
"illegal" and ordered the Gambian authorities to release him.
MFWA in June 2007, filed a complaint at the ECOWAS
court, urging President Yahya Jammeh and his administration to produce
Manneh and answer for his arrest and subsequent disappearance.
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