Greetings everyone! Good news: Red Cross International has been allowed to visit Dumo in Mile II. The result of yesterday's hearing in court seems promising, let's keep our fingers crossed... /Jenny Below from The Point October 13th 2000: - Dumo Saho's Case: Justice Kabalata Allows Appeal Zambian-born judge, Justice TA Kabalata, yesterday granted leave to Dumo Saho lawyers messrs Emmanuel Joof and Abubacarr Tambedou to formally appeal against the decision of the Kanifing magistrates court to remand Dumo Saho in custody. Dumo Saho and several others including Ebrima Yarbo were arrested in June 2000 after it was alleged that Dumo and others have planned to overthrow president Jammeh's government, and they were charged with treason. In a notice of motion heard by Justice Kabalata yesterday relating to Dumo Saho's case, lawyer Emmanuel Joof asked the court to grant him leave to file an appeal against the decision by the Kanifing magistrates court on July 14, 2000, to remand Dumo Saho in custody. Justice Kabalata proceeded to hear the application of lawyer Joof. There was no representative of the State at the hearing. The court acknowledged that the state was served a notice to appear, and even though the matter was stood down for about 45 minutes, no representative for the state appeared. Lawyer Joof intimated the court that he had problems in getting the record of proceedings from the Kanifing magistrates court on time. Justice Kabalata granted Joof application Copyright 2000 QuantumNET _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html You may also send subscription requests to [log in to unmask] if you have problems accessing the web interface and remember to write your full name and e-mail address. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------