The Independent (Gambia)
| The Independent
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| description | Gambian daily newspaper |
| language | English |
| First edition | July 5, 1999 |
| attitude | March 2006 |
| Frequency of publication | biweekly |
| Widespread edition | around 10,000 copies |
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| Range | around 30,000 million readers |
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| Editor-in-chief | Alagi Yorro Jallow |
| editor | Musa Saidykhan |
| ISSN (print) | 0796-1359 |
The Independent ( German The Independent ) was a Gambian daily newspaper . The publisher's office was in Serekunda - Kanifing . Most recently, an issue was printed every two weeks.
history
The independent newspaper publisher 25 freelance journalists was co-founded in July 1999. However, the press in Gambia is being bullied by the government of President Yahya Jammeh , and The Independent was not spared, and reached its peak in 2003.
Just one month after it was founded, the newspaper publisher's offices were searched by the National Intelligence Agency (NIA). It carried out the arrests and detention of several journalists.
After an article was published in July 2000 reporting a hunger strike at Mile 2 Central Prison , Alagi Yorro Jallow , editor and co-founder of the newspaper, was arrested by the NIA. Jallow was subsequently arrested and harassed several times.
Shortly after midnight on October 17, 2003, three unidentified men overwhelmed and injured a security guard. He was then able to get help using his cell phone and was replaced by another security guard. Shortly afterwards, on the pretext of being a police officer, four unknown men took him to the nearest police station in a green van . These then continued quickly after they let the guard get out. In the meantime the publishing house was set on fire and the alarmed fire brigade was able to save a lot. The offices remained undamaged, but all technical equipment for printing was destroyed.
That incident happened a month later when Abdoulie Sey , editor-in-chief of the Independent, was detained and interrogated by the NIA for three days. The NIA denied having detained Sey for three days until they released him on the fourth day. Sey described that a car similar to the one seen in the arson attack was used when he was picked up. In the past, Sey was threatened with death on the phone by anonymous callers and was unexpectedly visited by soldiers in the editorial offices.
On May 6, 2005, printing was suspended after the arrangement with the private but pro-government newspaper publisher The Daily Observer was unexpectedly suspended. Editor Musa Saidykhan looked for another way of printing, but other publishers declined to sign a contract.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Murder, Threats, Fires and Intimidation in Gambia . In: Nieman Reports . Nieman Foundation for Journalism . Summer 2006. Retrieved October 19, 2010.
- ^ Gambia: Independent Newspaper Attacked by Arsonists Allafrica.com of October 20, 2003
- ^ The Gambia: "The Independent" newspaper forced to stop publishing Pambazuka News, May 17, 2005