The managing editor of a newspaper in the Gambia, Abdul Hamid Adiamoh, has been detained without charge beyond the country's legal limit of 72 hours.
Adiamoh, a Nigerian who runs the Today newspaper, was arrested last Wednesday (20 June) in connection with an article that criticised a lawyer involved in the trial of the vice chancellor of the University of The Gambia, Muhammadou Kah.
Adiamoh was arrested for misreporting the defence counsel's cross-examination of a witness. He was denied bail.
He has been detained previously because of his reporting. According to his Wikipedia profile, he was arrested in September 2007 for publishing an article on children skipping school, picking scrap metal and selling it to scrap dealers.
Adiamoh was also arrested in June 2009 on a charge of "false publication" for a story about a cabinet reshuffle. Though he retracted the story and published an apology, he was detained for five days.
In a separate matter, Lamin Njie, the deputy editor-in-chief of the independent Daily News, was detained over the weekend for contempt of court. He was released after his newspaper published an apology and correction.
Sources: CPJ/Daily News/AfriqueJet
