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Gambia upholds death sentence for Lang Tombong & Co.
Thursday, 14 April 2011 21:10
AFP – A Gambian appeal court on Thursday upheld the death sentences passed on eight top brass for plotting a coup
in 2009, including the former army and intelligence chiefs and the ex-deputy head of the police force.The appeal grounds were "insufficient and lack merit" president of the three member Court of Appeal, Nigerian Justice Joseph Wowo, told the court in his judgement.
Lawyers for the accused told AFP they would appeal the decision.
The High Court in Banjul last July sentenced the eight to death. They included former army chief Langtombong Tamba, former intelligence chief Lamin Badjie and the former deputy head of police Modou Gaye as well as two businessmen and three military officers.
They were found guilty of procuring arms from neighbouring Guinea as well as on two counts of conspiracy to commit treason for an alleged bid to overthrow the government of Yahya Jammeh, who himself seized power in a bloodless coup in 1994.
President Jammeh, an outspoken military officer and former wrestler, is said to rule the country with an iron fist, repressing criticism and brushing off concerns over human rights abuses.
The small nation which straddles a long river is popular among European tourists attracted to its beaches and reputation as the "smiling coast".
However it is regularly criticised by groups such as Amnesty International for illegal arrests and detentions and repression of journalists, many of whom have fled the country as their colleagues disappear or die mysteriously.
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Does anybody,includi ng the lawyers of the accused,serious ly believe that the original judgement against these people will be quashed in any law court in The Gambia under Jammeh?
Not a chance under the puppet mercenery judges in The Gambia. I hope that the sentence will not be carried out at the end of the long fruitless legal process, whose outcome was never in doubt: A GUILTY VERDICT.
the price of freedom have to be paid to wipe out this injustice.Religious leaders,opposit ion leaders,student s,journalists and all truthful Gambians must denouce this act and get the mad proff. to confess the truth.
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