12 January 2005

TAKE ACTION! THE GAMBIA: SIGN PETITION URGING INQUIRY INTO JOURNALIST'S MURDER


11 January 2005

Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières, RSF) is asking free expression advocates to sign an online petition urging the Gambian government to open an independent inquiry into the murder of journalist Deyda Hydara.

Hydara, one of Gambia's most respected journalists and a correspondent for Agence France Presse, was gunned down on 16 December 2004 (see: http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/63378/).

A week-long fact-finding mission conducted by RSF in December 2004 concluded that Hydara was "murdered by well-organised professionals in a premeditated operation."

RSF calls on President Yahya Jammeh to appoint an independent commission of investigation after discovering that "most witnesses are afraid of being questioned by the authorities".

Sign the online petition here: http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=12243

Read RSF's fact-finding report: http://www.rsf.org/IMG/pdf/rapport_deyda_hydara_en.pdf



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The Gambia

Police chief says long-missing journalist is in the US 23 May 2012 Former minister gets life imprisonment for demanding an end to the dictatorship 19 January 2012 Newspaper journalist charged with criminal defamation 12 January 2012 Authorities fail to find editor's killers after seven years 16 December 2011 On election day, president displays contempt for press freedom 29 November 2011 See all alerts: The Gambia


West Africa

EQUATORIAL GUINEA: Jailed opposition figure transferred to isolated cell; attorney suspended 25 May 2012 MALI: Three weeks of media freedom violations 24 May 2012 LIBERIA: Reporter suspended from university for reporting on campus conflicts 22 May 2012 EQUATORIAL GUINEA: Opposition figure wrongly convicted 8 May 2012


 
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