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Subject: THE GAMBIA : Intelligence agents grill murdered editor's partner
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newspaper's management and tax situation / GAMBIE : Reporters sans
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PRESS FREEDOM / LIBERTE DE LA PRESSE
18 March 2005 / 18 mars 2005
THE GAMBIA
Intelligence agents grill murdered editor's partner about newspaper's
management and tax situation
Reporters Without Borders voiced amazement today that Pap Saine, the
co-owner of The Point newspaper and partner of murdered journalist Deyda Hydara, was
interrogated yesterday at the headquarters of the National Intelligence
Agency (NIA) in Banjul about the newspaper's management and tax situation.
"Deyda Hydara's killers are still at large, but the Gambian intelligence
services find nothing better to do than treat his partner with suspicion," the
press freedom organization said.
"It is not just a waste of time, it is also shameful to harass The Point's
co-owner," Reporters Without Borders continued. "We find this behaviour all
the more astounding as it is not the first time the security forces have
rummaged through the drawers of our murdered correspondent's newspaper. If they
wanted to create a diversion or try to discourage Pap Saine and push him into
closing The Point, this would be the way to go about it."
NIA agents went to the offices of The Point at midday yesterday to question
Saine, but he was not there. After being told of their visit, Saine went to
NIA headquarters shortly after 2 p.m. and was interrogated for about an hour
by three agents. They asked him to produce various administrative documents,
including the newspaper's 1991 publishing licence, the original of his
partnership agreement with Hydara's wife and his tax statements.
They also asked him if he had any differences with Hydara, with he
vigorously denied. The NIA agents demanded that he come back today with the
administrative documents and, among other demands, they also told him to make sure all
of the company's pending taxes were paid by the end of March.
The police had summoned Saine in similar fashion in mid-January and
interrogated him for an entire morning about the management of The Point, insisting
that he produce bank statements. They had said at the time they were
investigating the possibility that Hydara was murdered at the behest of a Nigerian
businessman who was the newspaper's supplier and was supposed to have had a
grudge against Hydara. This theory was shown to be absurd when Saine proved to
them the supplier was in fact a Gambian.
Hydara was shot dead at the wheel of his car on the night of 16 December
2004 as he was driving two of the newspaper's employees home. He was the
co-founder and co-editor of The Point, a newspaper that appears three times a week.
He was also the correspondent of Agence France-Presse and Reporters Without
Borders and one of the most outspoken critics of two draconian press laws that
were passed by the Gambian parliament on the eve of his murder.
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