By Awa B. Bah and Fabakary B. Ceesay The Forum on the participation of NGOs in the 47th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights and the 21st African Human Right Book Fair commenced at the Kairaba Beach Hotel on Saturday the 8th of May 2010.
Gambians in Sweden have formed a human rights group called HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL (HUMRA) on 11 November 2009, a press release issued by the group revealed. The group aims at campaigning, reporting and documenting human rights abuses and violations in the Gambia and Africa as a whole.
The executive committee of the Network of Human Rights Journalists (NHRJ) The Gambia is once again renewing their call for the immediate release of missing journalist Chief Ebrima B. Manneh, a Senior Journalist and Columnist of the Daily Observer Newspaper, who went missing since July, 2006, after leaving his home for work. He was said to have been picked up at his office by plain clothed security agents. Since then his whereabouts are yet unknown.
A complaint lodged by Mr. Alex Allie to the African Commission, a Sierra Leonean national, against the government of Senegal to the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR), seeking for redress on a particular matter, was not tabled as was promised by the Commission at its recently concluded 45th Ordinary Session in Banjul,.
In line with her mandate to keep a proper record of violations of the right to freedom of expression and denial of access to information, Commissioner Pansy Tlakula published in her reports submitted to the 45th ordinary session of the African commission the alleged violations of freedom of expression and access to information.
Article 55 of the Charter on Human and People’s Rights provide for communication to be forwarded to the African Commission where a person finds it difficult to get justice in a country after taking legal action for redress.
A reprehensive of the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU), Mr. Leo Igwe had presented his organization’s report to the African Commission on Human and People Rights at its 45th ordinary session held in Banjul.
A family member of Samsideen Jammeh, a native of Foni Sutusinjang Village, who was said to be the longest detainee under police custody in Banjul, told Foroyaa that their loved one has now been transferred from the Banjul Police Station to another location. He was detained at the Banjul Police Station for 2 years.
By Gibairu Janneh The defense counsel, Lamin. S. Camara, on Tuesday, made an immediate notice submission in the case of the deputy permanent secretary of the Department of State for Forestry and the Environment, Mr. Momodou O. Njie, which is before Magistrate Kumba Sillah Camara of the Bundung Magistrate Court.
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