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In the eight years since unidentified assailants shot and
killed Deyda Hydara of
the Gambia, no one has been held to account. The late
Committee to Protect Journalists
Mohamed
Keita from New York. "The impunity afforded to the killers of Deyda Hydara has
emboldened the enemies of the press in the Gambia."
Tuesday's threat
la mort par balle d'un autre.
Attaques impunies contre la presse:
Meurtre: Deyda Hydara (16 décembre 2004)
Incendie criminel: Domicile du journaliste Ebrima Sillah (15
prominent journalist, and the shooting death of another.
Unpunished media
attacks:
Murder: Deyda Hydara (December 16,
2004)
Arson attack: Home of journalist Ebrima Sillah (August 15,
2009, following her criticism of Jammeh's comments over the unsolved murder of Deyda Hydara,
the co-founder of The Point newspaper
who was killed on his
December 16 will be the seventh anniversary of the killing
of Deyda Hydara,
the dean of Gambian journalism. It is also the 20th anniversary of
Last week, Gambian President Yahya Jammeh participated in a rare meeting with select members of the West African nation's press corps. Jammeh spoke in favor of access to public information. He announced that he would allow The Standard newspaper to resume publication, five months after the National Intelligence Agency...
government has nothing to do with the death of Chief Manneh or Deyda Hydara or
the disappearances of so many people," you said in a meeting
I can still vividly recall how the news of
Deyda Hydara's killing was relayed to me on the morning of December 17,
"President Jammeh bags 4 awards," trumpeted a September 17 headline of the Daily Observer, a pro-government newspaper in the Gambia, a West African nation whose idyllic façade as "the smiling coast of Africa" is maintained in part by President Yahyah Jammeh's brutal repression of the independent press. ...
