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Gambia ranks 125th on RSF press freedom index
Sunday, 16 January 2011 15:15
PANA - The Paris-based media freedom watchdog, Reporters Without Borders, with french acronomy, RSF, has released its press freedom indexfor 2010, saying Gambia ranked 125th, out of a league table of 178 countries across the globe, the body said in a statement received by PANA Saturday.
According to the statement, the Gambia was found wanting over its press freedom and human rights records.
RSF also catalogued several instances of attacks aganist journalists and other media workers with impunity under the watch of President Yahya Jammeh, while "condemning the press freedom situation in Gambia and urging the government to let the media breathe."
The media freedom watchdog also said "President Jammeh, who openly threatens human rights activists and journalists has, for years, been" on the RSF list of “Predators of Press Freedom”.
According to the statement, the Gambia was found wanting over its press freedom and human rights records.
RSF also catalogued several instances of attacks aganist journalists and other media workers with impunity under the watch of President Yahya Jammeh, while "condemning the press freedom situation in Gambia and urging the government to let the media breathe."
The media freedom watchdog also said "President Jammeh, who openly threatens human rights activists and journalists has, for years, been" on the RSF list of “Predators of Press Freedom”.
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It is high time the Gambian online media were recognised by the international community for there commitment and unselfishness...to Gambian unity.
I find the statement from Justice Minister Gomez...
"We will wait here for them to come"
Juvenile and unbefitting that of a British educated Lawyer, a high ranking Minister of State..or indeed a fellow Gambian..father and brother.
If any dominion is only to be inhabited by a species containing one single brain cell...it will never leave the water to inhabit the earth. We who have conquered the highest vantage points of this planet, would not wish to return to salt water.
Let the people breathe?
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