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Momodou
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 Posted - 05 Aug 2007 : 17:20:52
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FATOU JAW MANNEH’S TRIAL SUFFERS SETBACK
By Fabakary B. Ceesay
The sedition trial involving Fatou Jaw Manneh and the state could not proceed at the Banjul Magistrates’ Court on Thursday 2 August due to the absence of the trial Magistrate Imelda Mboto.
The accused person, Fatou Jaw Manneh, the defence counsel, Lamin S. Jobarteh and the state counsel were all present in court only to be told that the trial magistrate would not sit for the day due to illness. The hearing was adjourned to Monday, 6 August.
Journalist Fatou Jaw Manneh was standing trial at the Kanifing Magistrates’ Court on different charges of sedition.
Magistrate Jawo has distanced himself from the trial which started in April, by transferring the matter to the Banjul Magistrates’ Court. The case was first mentioned before Magistrate Mboto on the 17 July but could not proceed and was adjourned to 2 August.
Fatou Jaw Manneh is a Gambian journalist based in the United States of America.
She was arrested at the Banjul International Airport on her arrival there on the 28 March and was subsequently detained at the NIA for five days before taken to court.
source: Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issue
Issue No. 90/2007, 3-5 August, 2007
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