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kobo
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 Posted - 17 Dec 2013 : 00:39:50
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1. 16 DECEMBER AND DEYDA’S MURDER IS STILL HANGING IN THE AIR
Published Monday December, 16 2013
When people die unnatural deaths, the conscience of the living cannot be clear until the motive for killing them becomes known. Deyda did not seek any political office. Hence, he was not a political foe to anyone. He did not write anything that is beyond the ordinary that could not be addressed with words and rejoinders.
He was simply amplifying the voices of Gambians with dissenting opinions and those who stood for the status quo. It was balanced reporting with particular objective of holding the government accountable to the Governed and making each person accountable for one’s deeds as an employee of the state or a private person.
All fair minded persons are convinced that Deyda did not do anything to anyone that made him to deserve being shot to death with many bullets. How could anyone with a clear conscience sleep and then wake up to look at ones children and wife knowing that one has deprived a wife and children their father for no just cause. Any one has the ability to hide and kill a person. This does not require any bravery.
All it needs is to starve ones heart of love and one’s mind of rationality so that one could see the victim as an object rather than a human being.
SOURCE: Foroyaa News: Editorial
2. Deyda Hydara: Nine Years of Impunity By D.A. Jawo
This Monday (16th December) is yet another anniversary of the assassination of prominent Gambian journalist, Deyda Hydara, the ninth year since he was brutally murdered by unknown assailants while he was driving home from work. Ironically, the killing happened near the perimeter fence of the Tactical Support Group (paramilitary police) headquarters on the busy Serekunda-Banjul highway, and yet, they claim not to have been aware of the shooting. There is also as yet no indication that the Gambian authorities have any intentions of investigating the case with a view to apprehending those responsible for this heinous crime.
However, instead of putting in all necessary efforts to find out who killed Deyda and why, the Gambian authorities appear quite unconcerned about the case. In fact every time President Jammeh comments on the case, he makes some ambiguous remarks which tend to confuse rather than clarify his government’s stand point on the issue. A case in point was his last interview with the BBC in which he compared Deyda’s brutal murder to the deaths of other Gambians in road accidents, asking why anyone should be more concerned about Deyda’s death than those Gambians who have died in other circumstances, thus further dashing any hopes that the authorities have any intentions of investigating the case......
SOURCE: Maafanta.com & Full Report
3. GPU STATEMENT ON THE UNSOLVED MURDER OF DEYDA HYDARA
Compatriots, Journalists and Friends of the Media, Monday, December 16 2013 will mark the ninth anniversary of the gruesome murder of Deyda Hydara, the heroic co-proprietor and managing editor of The Point Newspaper. He was assassinated in a drive-by shooting. Yet the gunmen behind this nefarious act are yet to be arrested and brought to book. The Gambia Press Union once again calls on the Government of The Gambia to expend all its efforts and tools to investigate this matter in order to bring the culprits to book. Failure to bring the perpetrators of this heinous crime to book will only entrench a culture of impunity
in our society, which is inimical to democracy.
It is the responsibility of the Government to protect the right to life of all Gambians as enshrined in Section 18 of the 1997 constitution, which states, ‘No person shall be deprived of his or her life intentionally of right to life except in the execution of a sentence of death imposed by a court of competent jurisdiction in respect of a criminal offence for which the penalty is death under the Laws of The Gambia as they have effect in accordance with subsection (2) and of which he or she has been lawfully convicted’.
Thus the Government of the Gambia should move heaven and earth to bringing these criminals to book as this barbaric act has no place in a civilized democratic society. The murder of Deyda is a fundamental human rights violation that goes against the very essence of our constitution and all regional and international instruments that the Gambia has ratified. These include the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights, hence the responsibility to ensure justice prevails and the protection of human rights in our society lies squarely in the hands of the Government......
SOURCE: Maafanta.com & Full Report
4. Related Point News;
5. Related Bantaba topics;
6. American Street News Deyda Hydara family loses case at Ecowas Court
7. ECOWAS Court Press Release: ECOWAS COURT DELIVERS RULINGS ON ALLEGED HUMAN RIGHT VIOLATIONS INVOLVING REPUBLIC OF THE GAMBIA, AND ECOWAS COMMISSION
8. Freedom online news also report WHAT DO YOU SAY ABOUT A MAN WHO’S Given EVERYTHING FOR NOTHING?
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kobo
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Posted - 17 Feb 2014 : 20:01:36
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  1. ECOWAS Court Hears Case of Deyda Hydara of The Gambia
Monday, February 17, 2014
The ECOWAS Court has opened the case of the slain Gambian journalist, Deyda Hydara who was killed by some unknown killers 7 years ago. Hydara a veteran journalist who stands to be one Gambia’s second generation of media activists was killed and up to date Government of the Gambia have not come out with any tangible findings as to who killed him.
IFJ/FAJ commends the ECOWAS courts for hearing the case. This is not the first time Gambia government was taken to the ECOWAS courts for either the disappearance of journalists , arrest and torture or killing like Deyda’s case.
Read the IFJ/FAJ below.
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Federation of African Journalists (FAJ) today welcomed the hearings of the ECOWAS Court on the killing of Deyda Hydara, former editor and co- proprietor of The Point Newspaper in The Gambia.......
Source: The Daily News & more full report
2. IFJ/FAJ commend ECOWAS court hearing on Deyda Hydara’s death
Monday, February 17, 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Federation of African Journalists (FAJ) have welcomed the hearings of the ECOWAS Court on the killing of Deyda Hydara, former editor and co- proprietor of The Point newspaper in The Gambia.
The hearings took place Friday during the session of the ECOWAS Court in the Togolese capital, Lomé. This session of the ECOWAS Court outside of its Abuja headquarters, was held at the premises of the Supreme Court of Togo. Secretary General of the “Union des Journalistes Indépendants du Togo” (UJIT) an IFJ/FAJ affiliate, Credo Tetteh, attended the hearing, representing the IFJ and the FAJ.
The Court heard the Deyda Hydara family representative, as first applicant, and the Republic of The Gambia as the defendant. After the initial deliberations, the case was adjourned to Tuesday, 11th March for the hearing of another witness.
The IFJ-Africa as second applicant has sided with the Hydara family represented by his son, Deyda Hydara Jr, currently an engineer in London.......
Source: The Point News & more full report |
Edited by - kobo on 17 Feb 2014 20:08:35 |
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kobo
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Posted - 11 Jun 2014 : 02:49:12
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 ECOWAS court absolves Gambia government (i.e. to set free or free from guilt or blame or consequences) on Deyda Hydara's murder Freedom Newspaper update reports;
Breaking News: ECOWAS court rules Gambia failed to investigate journalist murder
Abuja, Nigeria, June 10, 2014--The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes today's ruling by a West African regional court, which found that the Gambian government failed to conduct a meaningful investigation into the murder of journalist Deyda Hydara. The ruling is the first ECOWAS case relating to the murder of a Gambian journalist.
Hydara, the founder of the independent newspaper The Point, was shot dead by unidentified assailants as he drove home from his office in the capital, Banjul, on December 16, 2004. Hydara, a regular critic of President Yahya Jammeh's harsh policies, had received multiple death threats in the months leading up to his death. His murder remains unsolved.
A panel of three justices in the Nigeria-based Economic Community of West African States Court of Justice declared today that Gambia's National Intelligence Agency, tasked with investigating Hydara's murder, did not carry out a proper investigation and cited its failure to carry out ballistic tests on the bullets and weapons recovered from suspects. The court said the Gambia's National Intelligence Agency was "not an impartial body to conduct the investigation" but that there was no evidence linking the Gambian government to the murder. The court awarded US$50,000 to Hydara's family as compensation for the government's failure to effectively investigate the murder, and US$10,000 for legal costs.....Full Report
ORIGINAL NEWS SOURCE: CPJ Committee to Protect Journalists |
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