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Gambian media rallies around one of their own, to save him from being deportation
Published 07/13/2010
- 4:15 p.m. GMT
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Pa Modou Bojang
A Gambian Journalist, Pa Modou Bojang, sits in prison in the United Kingdom, awaiting orders for deportation to The Gambia. This is a cause of great concern to The Gambian media fraternity at home and abroad. Pa Modou Bojang, who is no stranger to the regime of Yahya Jammeh, does certainly risk losing his liberty and possibly his life, should he be forcibly removed and deported back home to The Gambia. This urgent call to action follows concerns instigated by the Freedom Newspaper and Radio, Jollofnews, and many concerned Gambians and friends of The Gambia. It is in the interest of the media fraternity to fight to save Pa Modou Bojang, out of concern for his life and liberty should he be deported.
Our concerns will be conveyed directly to the British Home Office and to the powers that be in the British judiciary system, responsible of overseeing the enforcement of the order of deportation. We hope their good and wise judgment will be brought to bear on this very urgent matter. Finally, we are counting on our friends, who have never let us down; Amnesty International (AI), Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Media Foundation of West Africa (MFWA), and life-minded organizations and agencies, to throw their weights behind the effort to save Pa Modou Bojang from being deported. It should be noted that about a year ago, The Gambia Echo carried an article, authored by Associate Editor, Mathew K. Jallow, relating to one of the instances in which the subject of our appeal, Pa Modou Bojang, was in trouble with the regime. In that instance, a little-known, insignificant lawyer, who prided in openly supporting the human rights abuses perpetrated by The Gambian regime, threatened Pa Modou Bojang and another colleague of his with arrest and incarceration. That failed lawyer, Mr. Edward Gomez, is today The Gambian Minister of Justice.
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