Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Amnesty International Report: Journalist in Senegal at risk of disappearance

Yahya Danfa, who got into trouble with the authorities for working with Amnesty International representatives in The Gambia, and who had to flee to Senegal, is apparently not safe even there, according to an Amnesty International report which seems to have slipped under the radar of even the usually quite watchful Foroyaa. I don't know about the veracity of the claims here, but if it is indeed true that his family got harassed, and that he himself is in fear of being kidnapped and brought back to the country to be punished, even after he fled to another country where he poses no danger whatsoever, then that's very sad, and will only serve to further soil the already pretty grimy human rights record of the current Government. 

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