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Special Criminal Court found Janneh guilty of treason and conspiracy to commit a felony and gave him a life sentence. The judge, Emmanuel Nkea stated that he would have preferred to give Janneh a death sentence had it been permitted under Gambian law. Janneh, Keita, Jallow, and
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November and December 2011. A number of witnesses testified for the prosecution that they had seen Janneh and the other defendants distributing the T-shirts. Police also presented e-mails in which CCG activists discussed how to change the national government.
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Coalition for Change–The Gambia (CGG) in April 2011, which aimed to bring together organisations involved in human rights activities to oppose Jammeh's government.
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officials for distributing them. Three other activists - fellow
Gambians Modou Keita and Ebrima Jallow and a Nigerian, Michael Uche Thomas - were arrested the same day. The four were detained at Mile 2 prison.
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Minister for Information, Communications and Technology in April 2004. Janneh was sacked by Jammeh from the post in July 2005 while attending an international conference in Nigeria.
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Coalition for Change – The Gambia (CCG) and began to distributing it. Janneh was arrested on 5 June 2011 by
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Thomas were also each sentenced to three years of hard labor for sedition. One of them, Michael Uche Thomas (a
Nigerian national), died in prison of pneumonia in March 2012.
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in 1986. He then earned a master of arts in 1987 and a PhD in political science in 1990, both at the
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and called for their immediate release, stating, "Gambia must stop such acts of persecution and allow criticism to be heard in the country."
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described itself as "appalled" by the sentences and "deeply concerned by the state of freedom of expression in The Gambia".
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