Gambia: Incommunicado detention/Fear of ill-treatment/Health concern.

Index Number: AFR 27/006/2002
Date Published: 11 December 2002
Categories: Africa, Gambia

Amnesty International is seriously concerned for the safety of Bisher Al-Rawi, an Iraqi national, and Jamil El Banna, a Jordanian national, who have been held in incommunicado detention in Banjul, the capital since their arrest by members of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) on 8 November. Jamil El Banna is believed to be a diabetic. Amnesty International is concerned that he may have neither the medication he requires, nor access to a doctor.