Amnesty International today calls on the Gambian government to immediately charge or release all former government officials detained during a wave of arrests over the past week.

Fellow citizens in the Gambia National Army, it's your constitutional right to peacefully arrest Yahya Jammeh as soon as practicable, and quickly parcel him to The Hague for crimes against humanity.

GMC welcomes the strong condemnation by the Acting President of the Federal Republic of Nigera, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan of the on-going undemocratic practices in some member countries of ECOWAS. In particular, GMC is encouraged by the determination of Ecowas to reign in on few lawless Presidents in the region, and supporting civil society organisations against mal-governance. GMC fully

"...we face a serious human rights crisis. Citizens are arrested and locked up without charges, and in some cases those who have been tried and acquitted are rearrested and detained at the behest of the Executive.  Citizens have disappeared after having been picked up from their homes or work places by state security personnel," UDP leader Ousainou Darboe says in his independence message to Gambians.