On the second anniversary of a police raid on the privately-owned weekly The Independent, Reporters Without Borders calls on the government to lift the illegal and unofficial ban that has prevented the newspaper from publishing for the past two years.

“By suppressing a newspaper that was often very critical, the government broke the laws that it requires Gambians to respect under pain of severe penalties,” the press freedom organisation said.

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