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| PHOTO SOURCE: Japanese Times |
In the last days of his disintegrating standard, vanquished pioneer Yahya Jammeh swung again to the strategies that human rights bunches had since quite a while ago blamed his administration for utilizing against rivals amid his over 22 years in power.
Presently, after Jammeh's end of the week flight into outcast, the nation's jail entryways are beginning to swing open.
On Saturday, as Jammeh withdrew and another vote based period started in this modest West African nation, Tijan and various others were discharged. Authorities with the approaching government promise that more will take after.
In statement made by Pres. Adama Barrow, he said “All political detainees without trial to be released immediately... To be quite honest, my life was at risk”
That prisoners are already being released is a sign that the country’s security forces recognize their new leader. “It shows the potential for a new Gambia in which these disappearances don’t happen,” said Jim Wormington, West Africa researcher for Human Rights Watch. Hundreds of Gambians disappeared during Jammeh’s rule. Omar Malleh Jabang was one of them.
Jabang, who knew Jammeh as a young man and once served as his protocol officer, later became a strong supporter of an independent candidate and, ultimately, of the coalition that backed Barrow for the presidency.
In November, Jabang was taken by four men in a pickup truck with tinted windows to a house where he was thrown into a tiny room with planks that covered the window. He shook as he recalled his imprisonment. He never was told why he was arrested, though it did not come as a surprise.
At one point, he said, his captors wanted to remove his handcuffs, but they wouldn’t open. “So they cracked a joke to say they are going to cut my hands to take it off,” he said.
Concerning Tijan, he keeps on printing his #Gambiahasdecided T-shirts for a resistance that has now taken power. He said he no longer lives in dread
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