Ansumano Badjie, senior reporter for the independent newspaper, “The Point”, has gone into hiding. Badjie was sent to cover the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council’s (AFPRC) two-week tour of its rural projects, from 3 to 15 June. When the entourage arrived in the rural city of Soma on 13 June, the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) […]
Ansumano Badjie, senior reporter for the independent newspaper,
“The Point”, has gone into hiding. Badjie was sent to cover the
Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council’s (AFPRC) two-week tour
of its rural projects, from 3 to 15 June. When the entourage
arrived in the rural city of Soma on 13 June, the National
Intelligence Agency (NIA) arrested Badjie and detained him for
one hour in the Soma police station for referring to the tour in
one of his articles as a “political tour,” and for other
“negative reports” which were not specified. The NIA agents
seized all his documents and manuscripts before releasing him,
but stated that they were “not finished” with him yet. When
Badjie returned to “The Point”‘s head office in Fajara, he
reported the arrest in the newspaper’s 17 June issue. On 18 June,
Badjie was informed by “The Point”‘s bureau in Banjul that two
officers from the “serious crimes unit” were looking for him.
They have since made their way to Fajara, intensifying their
search.
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