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Gambia: Prisoners of Conscience / Incommunicado detention
17 June 2009

Seven named individuals were arrested by members of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) on 15 June. They are being held incommunicado detention at the NIA headquarters ...

Urgent Action       AFR 27/002/2009

Le Fil. Juin/Juillet 2009
1 June 2009

Newsletter       NWS 21/003/2009

The Wire, June/July 2009. Vol. 39, issue 003
1 June 2009

1) For a path out of poverty, take the human rights route 2) LiveWire 3) Maternal mortality: A woman a minute 4) Corporations, human rights and poverty 5) Top tips ...

Appendix       NWS 21/003/2009

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 detention ...

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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 concoctions.

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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

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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