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Ebou N. Keita

Gender: Male
TV Journalist
  • Organisation: Gambian Talents Television broadcaster
  • Case: Detention
  • Culprit: police officer
  • Country: Gambia
  • City: Kombo Central,

Keita told CPJ he was on his way to work in Kombo Central, a district in the west of the country, when he saw police arresting drivers who were protesting restrictions on their work as part of the country’s pandemic lockdown. He said he took photos and video of the arrests because he believed it would be a good news story. A police officer asked Keita to stop reporting and to leave the area; as he was leaving, another officer stopped him, took his phone, tied his hands with an elastic cord, and took him to a police station in Abuko, a nearby town, he said.

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