Gambia News : Gambian lawyers boycott court sessions in protest
Gambian lawyers are currently boycotting all the courts in the tiny West African nation following a decision by prosecutors at the state law office to charge one of their colleagues, Moses Richards with sedition and giving false information to a public officer, APA learns here on Wednesday.
The President of the Gambia Bar Association, Sheriff Tambedou is quoted by the Wednesday edition of the Foroyaa newspaper as saying that the Bar started their action on Monday10th of January to seek protection and respect for their professional activities and that they will resume their normal duties on Thursday 14th of January 2011. He said the decision was arrived after members of the Bar agreed that no lawyer will appear in any court in the Gambia during this period.
He went on to say that the reason for this protest was triggered by the recent arrest, detention and leveling of charges against Barrister Moses Richards and by extension to all of them as barristers. He said Barrister Richards wrote a letter to the Sheriff of the High Court acting on the instructions of his client which was information that was conveyed to him by his client.