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Gambian court convicts Nigerian rights activist for false information

Tuesday, 07 September 2010 00:22

edwinA magistrate’s court in Banjul on Monday convicted and sentenced a local human rights activist, Edwin Nebolisa Nwakaeme, to a mandatory six month imprisonment and a fine of 10, 000 dalasis (US$400), in default to serve three years imprisonment for giving false information to the office of the president.edwin
Nwakaeme was arrested in February 2010 and he appeared in court in March charged with giving false information to the office of the president.
The particulars of offence indicate that Nwakaeme sometime in March 2010 in Banjul gave false information to the office of the president that ‘Africa in Good Governance and Democracy’ (ADG), a non-governmental organization was seeking nomination of Ms Mariam Jammeh, daughter of President Yahya Jammeh as ADGs General Ambassador for World Children Day celebration in 2009 of which he knew to be untrue.
Nwakaeme, in an interview with the BBC in 2009 after the arrest and subsequent conviction and imprisonment to two years on charges of sedition and defamation of six Gambian journalists by the High Court in Banjul, criticized the Jammeh administration.
His arrest and conviction is seen by many rights groups as a punishment for his criticism of the regime.
Source: APA

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+1 #1 2010-09-07 14:48
MR Edwin Nwakaeme,i commend you for being a right activist and i know how much pressure you have to deal with from the African Governments,but to go to the extra mile and lied about a presidents daughter is distasteful,and if you were doing it just to get closed to the Gambian leader,then i think you deserve the punishment and at the same time you deviated from your responsibilitie s as right activities..just a thought
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