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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Roy Greenslade

Journalists held over article in new paper's first issue

The authorities in Gambia yesterday released two Nigerian journalists who were arrested at the weekend after they had launched a newspaper. Sam Obi, owner of the Daily Express and correspondent for the English service of Radio France International, was picked up with his colleague Abdou Gafar. Their supposed offence relates to an article in the first issue of the Express about the Gambia government's ban on the holding of an international forum on press freedom in the capital, Banjul. (Via iol.co.za)

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