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Subject: THE GAMBIA : Intelligence agents grill  murdered editor's partner 
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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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