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