The director-general of the Gambia’s state TV and radio broadcaster, Momodou Sabally, was dimissed last week and immediately arrested by the security services on unspecified charges.
Soon after, a reporter with the same broadcaster, GRTS, Bakary Fatty, was also detained by members of the national intelligence agency, reported Gainako.
These arrests were followed by a third. Alhagie Manka, a documentary maker, TV director and and photojournalist, was taken into custody after taking photographs of a presidential motorcade.
All three have yet to appear in court, which is said by Human Rights Watch (HRW), to be a violation of Gambian law.
The arrests come ahead of elections set for 1 December in which the president, Yahya Jammeh, will be seeking a fifth consecutive five-year term. Widely described as a dictator, he took power in Gambia in a 1994 military coup and has since won four elections.
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