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Cornelius Edward Hamelberg <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 4 Apr 2007 22:59:43 +0200
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Is it possible for us to do a reading and comprehension exercise on the said criminally seditious article on this site, and judge  the alleged damage for ourselves?
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> From: "BambaLaye (Abdoulie Jallow)" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 2007/04/04 on PM 08:15:58 CEST
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 獻ne: Fw: Gambia charges U.S.-based reporter with sedition
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> Gambia charges U.S.-based reporter with sedition
> Wed 4 Apr 2007, 16:52 GMT
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>  BANJUL, April 4 (Reuters) - A U.S.-based journalist appeared in court on
> Wednesday in her native Gambia charged with sedition over online articles
> critical of President Yahya Jammeh.
> 
> Fatou Jaw Manneh was detained a week ago at the tiny West African
> country's airport after she arrived to visit family.
> 
> She was charged with intention to commit sedition, publication of
> seditious words and publication of false news intended to create public
> fear and alarm.
> 
> The court prosecutor accused Manneh of publishing an October 2005 article
> which said Jammeh was "tearing our beloved country to shreds" and also
> described him as "a bundle of terror".
> 
> A court in Kanifing near the capital Banjul released her on bail of 25,000
> Gambian dalasi ($900) until April 11.
> 
> Manneh, who is in her late 30s, worked on Gambia's pro-government Daily
> Observer newspaper in the late 1990s before going to study in the United
> States.
> 
> Now living in Washington DC, she has written stories for opposition
> websites critical of Jammeh's government.
> 
> Gambian authorities periodically detain journalists who criticise Jammeh,
> a former coup leader who said after his re-election last year he would ban
> any newspaper that offended him.
> 
> Press freedom watchdogs have criticised Gambia's government for detaining
> journalists, often without charge, and demanded further investigation into
> the 2004 killing of prominent journalist Deyda Hydara, who was shot dead
> in his car.
> 
> Official inquiries into the murder have so far been inconclusive.
> 
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