Gambia

Human Rights in REPUBLIC OF THE GAMBIA

Hundreds released as Gambian witch hunts end | Amnesty ...
8 April 2009

Hundreds of people held in a government-backed witch hunt in Gambia have been released without charge.

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Gambia releases opposition leader | Amnesty International
23 March 2009

Halifa Sallah is believed to have been arrested for articles he wrote criticising the use of witch doctors by the Gambian government.

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The Gambia: Hundreds accused of “witchcraft” and poisoned in ...
18 March 2009

Amnesty International today revealed that up to 1000 people in The Gambia have been kidnapped from their villages by “witch doctors”, taken to secret dete.

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Hundreds accused of 'witchcraft' persecuted in The Gambia ...
18 March 2009

Up to 1000 people have been taken from theirvillages by “witch doctors”, taken to secret detention centres and forced to drink hallucinogenic concoctio.

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Gambia: Fear of torture or other ill-treatment/ possible unfair ...
12 March 2009

Halifa Sallah was arrested on 8 March at his home in Serrekunda, a suburb of the capital Banjul, and taken to Serrekunda police station by five plain clothed policemen ...

Urgent Action       AFR 27/001/2009

Gambia: Fear rules
11 November 2008

This report illustrates how human rights violations in Gambia are perpetrated by the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), army and police against real and perceived ...

Report       AFR 27/003/2008

Gambia: Government must stop repression | Amnesty International
11 November 2008

(Abuja) African leaders and the international community must putpressure on the Gambian authorities to stop using their security forcesas a tool for repression, ...

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Senegal: Further information on Intimidation/ fear of enforced ...
27 June 2008

Gambian journalist Yahya Danfa has been granted asylum in Sweden. He had been in hiding in Senegal with his family, but had been threatened there by Gambian security ...

Urgent Action       AFR 49/003/2008

Senegal/Gambia: Intimidation/ fear of enforced disappearance ...
10 March 2008

Yahya Danfa, a Gambian journalist living in Senegal, is at risk of enforced disappearance at the hands of Gambian security agents who are among a delegation ...

Urgent Action       AFR 49/002/2008

Gambia: Torture/Medical concern: Yahya Bajinka (m)
4 March 2008

Former National Intelligence Agency officer Yahya Bajinka has been detained in secret since the 15 April 2007. He is now known to have been tortured, and is being ...

Urgent Action       AFR 27/001/2008