Gambia: Submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review: Seventh session of the UPR Working Group of the Human Rights Council, February 2010

Gambia: Submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review: Seventh session of the UPR Working Group of the Human Rights Council, February 2010

In this submission, Amnesty International provides information as stipulated in the General Guidelines for the Preparation of Information under the Universal Periodic Review. Amnesty International raises concerns over restrictions on freedom of the media, unlawful arrest and detention, enforced disappearance, torture and other ill-treatment, deaths in detention, unlawful killings, unfair trials, and attacks on journalists and human rights defenders.