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Gambia Govt suffers set back at ECOWAS court

Friday, 22 October 2010 21:20

Lawyer_Edu_GomezMFWA - The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice in Abuja, Nigeria on October 21, 2010 dismissed the second objection raised by the Gambian authorities, defendant in the case of torture filed by a victim, Musa Saidykhan, a former editor-in-chief of the banned Banjul-based The Independent newspaper.Lawyer_Edu_Gomez
On June 30, 2009, the Community Court ruled against Gambian government's first objection asking the court to dismiss Saidykhan case on grounds that the court had no jurisdiction to hear the case and also that Saidykhan had also not exhausted all local remedies.
This ruling means that the court will consider in its judgment the clothing that Saidykhan wore during his torture ordeal as well as his medical records which he tendered during his evidence.
The court has fixed December 21 as the day it will deliver its judgment.

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+1 #2 2010-10-24 17:20
The point is we have gotten to a point where the Gambian society is totally ripped off of its moral fibre; the state perpetuates and operates on lies and deciet. So it is never abnormal for officials to lie, especially if it comes to safeguarding the interest of the only man in Gambia who is always right, yahya Jammeh.
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0 #1 2010-10-24 07:11
The Gambia govt's sporadic outbursts of lip service to Human Rights issues convinces nobody but themselves.

I wish Mr. Justice Minister Gomez would have the balls to one day stop his official car and just pay a surprise visit to Mile 2 and see for himself those citizens whose 72-hour detention without charge limit has expired by months and years! I bet many hands would go up if that question was put to the inmates.

Some might say he would be lucky if he did not join them the next day and they could be right, but that is the type of practical steps that can help help move us out of this legal quagmire created by that paranoid Sheikh in Banjul.
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