{"id":5992,"date":"2017-06-10T14:40:23","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T09:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pakistanpressfoundation.org\/?p=87878"},"modified":"2017-06-10T14:40:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T09:40:23","slug":"ppf-welcomes-the-gambian-courts-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/ppf-welcomes-the-gambian-courts-verdict\/","title":{"rendered":"PPF welcomes the Gambian courts verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"![\"PPF](\"http:\/\/www.pakistanpressfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/PPF-Logo-with-Slogan-1.jpg\" "\\"PPF")
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in a letter to Adama Barrow, President of the Republic of Gambia welcomed the issuance of arrest warrants for the accused in the killing of Deyda Hydara, a journalist and founder of independent Point Newspaper.<\/p>\n
PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali in his letter appreciates courts verdict and hopes this will be step towards ensuring justice for slain journalist Hydara and his family.<\/p>\n
According to Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Magistrates\u2019 court in the Gambian capital, Banjul issued the arrest warrants against a Yahya Jammeh, former dictator, Kawsu Camara, Former Army Commander and Major Sanna Manjang, in alleged assassination.<\/p>\n
Hydara was a well-known critic of Yahya Jammeh and the president of the Gambia Press Union (GPU) and led advocacy efforts against legislative restrictions on press freedom in the country.<\/p>\n
On December 16, 2004 Hydara was shot dead in a drive-by shooting by unknown assailants on his way from work<\/p>\n
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Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in a letter to Adama Barrow, President of the Republic of Gambia welcomed the issuance of arrest warrants for the accused in the killing of Deyda Hydara, a journalist and founder of independent Point Newspaper. PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali in his letter appreciates courts verdict and hopes this will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[4,328,903],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5992"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}