Jailed Gambian journalist has baby taken

14 Aug 09 | Index Index, minipost

Five of the six journalists sentenced to two years in prison for sedition and defamation against the government in Zambia have been moved to a northern prison.  This included Pap Saine, the Reuters correspondent who is suffering from a heart condition but has not been allowed to go to Senegal for the pacemaker operation.  The sixth journalist Sarata Jabba-Dibba has not been moved to the northern prison, but has had her seven month old baby, which she is still breastfeeding  taken away from her. Read more here

Gambian journalists jailed for defamation

07 Aug 09 | Index Index, minipost

Six journalists in Gambia have been jailed for two years each after being found guilty of criticising the country’s president. The journalists from the newspaper Foroyaa and weekly publication The Point were convicted of sedition and defamation for comments critical of President Yahya Jammeh. Read more here