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From:  "Joe Sambou" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject:  [>-<] RE: Alert: NIA "Invites" Independent Editor
Date:  Thu, 27 Oct 2005 21:31:00 +0000
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>Baba, thanks for this forward.  I just read his report on the point
>and was saying to myself, whomever said this will be paid a visit
>sooner or later, especially with the quotes ascribed to President
>Mbeki.  How can three thugs come from nowhere and ask you to go with
>them, whether you like it or not?  How?  This is a common and
>accepted practice in the Gambia and it is only the people that can
>stop it.  I don't know what they did to your reporter, but most that
>they wisk away are not that lucky, and without bruises.  This is
>going to get worse as we approach the 2006 Presidential elections.  
>The day one of these thugs go to abuse someone and they loose a life
>or two in the process, that will be the day they see how their
>abuses affect the people.  As long as they are walking on the people
>easily, they shall continue to whisk any of us.
>
>Chi Jaama
>
>Joe
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>>From: Baba Galleh Jallow <[log in to unmask]>
>>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list              
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>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Alert: NIA "Invites" Independent Editor
>>Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 19:36:17 +0000
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>>Dear Friends,
>> 
>>I have just been informed that The Independent's editor-in-chief
>>Musa Saidykhan was today picked up for questioning by three NIA
>>agents. Initially, Mr Saidykhan was "invited" to the NIA
>>headquarters. When he refused to go because his request to be told
>>the reason for the invivation was denied, three men came to The
>>Independent's offices to pick him up. Mr. Saidykhan demanded to see
>>an arrest warrant but the agents told him that with or without a
>>warrant, he had to come with them. They also took his cell phone
>>from him for "screening."
>> 
>>At NIA headquarters, Saidykhan was questioned about events
>>surrounding his recent trip to Johannesburg for an African editors
>>forum about which he wrote in The Independent. While in South
>>Africa, Saidykhan had also submitted a report to the authorities
>>there on the state of the media in The Gambia. As at the time of
>>sending this brief report, Mr. Saidykhan had been released but
>>asked to report to NIA headquarters again tomorrow moring, Friday.
>> 
>>We will keep you posted on developments.
>> 
>>Baba
>> 
>>PS: NIA = National Intelligence Agency
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