Six Gambia Press Union journalists sent back to prison

Reporters Without Borders is outraged to learn that six leading members of the Gambia Press Union, including the editors of two newspapers, were sent back to prison today on sedition and defamation charges. The GPU's vice-president, the mother of a young child, was also rearrested but was freed on bail. Reporters Without Borders calls for them all to be released unconditionally at once. “We must yet again tell the Gambian government that we appalled by its disgraceful behaviour,” the press (...)

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