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Mali protests against violations of Human Rights in Gambia
Thursday, 29 July 2010 17:22
As part of its fight for respect of human rights, Amnesty International Mali
celebrated Gambia’s "Freedom Day", marking the 16th anniversary of the 1994 coup that brought President Yahya Jammeh to power.The aim of conference held Thursday, July 22nd, under the chairmanship of Makan Koné, president of Amnesty International Mali and in the presence of Ndey Tapha Sosseh, President of the Gambia
Press Union, who is Coordinator of the West Africa Journalists Association (WAJA) capacity building projects in Mali, was to expose the multiple human rights violations committed in the Gambia since 1994.Mr Koné noted that the human rights situation in the Gambia has deteriorated since 1994 with the arrival of Yahya Jammeh, who he said keeps multiplying rights abuses against opponents and journalists as well as defenders of human rights.
“The security forces regularly arrest individuals without formal charges or imprison them illegally after unfair trials. Today, freedom is in the eyes of Gambians an illusion. They live in fear of arbitrary arrests, torture, secret detention, unfair trials, rape, and extrajudicial executions,” Koné said.
In Gambia, he went on, President Yahya Jammeh has declared July 22 "Freedom Day", celebrated each year, something that is far from expressing the reality in the country.To denounce the scandalous state of human rights in Gambia, according to President Makan Koné, 84 non-governmental organizations in fifteen countries gather to mark the day. He said in the Gambia hundreds of people were imprisoned and detained in appalling conditions after waves of arrests from November 2009 to March 2010.
He pointed out that the Gambia government is not content in its effort to stopping opponents, journalists, human rights defenders ... but it pushes on with the absurd campaign to stop sorcerers.
For Makan Koné, the organization of the day has no other ambition than to pull efforts together to bring the Gambian authorities to put an end to arbitrary arrests and detentions, to respect the country's constitution and fulfill their obligations of human rights.
Culled from Waati Newspaper in Bamako
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Commendable efforts from true Gambians & friends. Surely all of these genuine right defenders can't be 'hypocretes'.
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