Echo Editorial

How many more will have to suffer?

BY EBRIMA G. SANKAREH, Editor-in-Chief

“In Germany they first came for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.....

       Dr. Amadou S. Janneh  And Yahya Jammeh, Gambia's President

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Rights Groups Pressure Gambian Dictator, Jammeh, Over Ex-Minister's Jailing

The Gambia must release four activists jailed for distributing anti-government T-shirts

We the below signed organisations call for the immediate release of four activists jailed over the distribution of T-shirts calling for an end to dictatorship in the Gambia. Dr Amadou Scattred Janneh, the country's former Minister for Information and Communication, was yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labour for treason. Modou Keita, Ebrima Jallow and Michael Uche Thomas were each sentenced to three years with hard labour for sedition.

Dr. Amadou S. Janneh, US Citizen in Gambian jail

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Amnesty International Decries Jailing of Gambian rights activists

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
PRESS RELEASE
18 January 2012

 The Gambia must release four activists jailed for distributing anti-government T-shirts
Amnesty International today called for the immediate release of four activists arrested over the distribution of T-shirts calling for an end to dictatorship in The Gambia. One activist, Dr Amadou Scattred Janneh, the country's former Minister for Information and Communication, was yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labour for treason. Modou Keita, Ebrima Jallow and Michael Uche Thomas were each sentenced to three years with hard labour for sedition.

Dr. Amadou S. Janneh, US Citizen in Gambian jail

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