Six journalists will be freed in honour of holy Ramadan in Gambia<br /> <br /> International Press Institute (IPI) is saddened by the murder of French-Spanish photojournalist and documentary-maker Christian Poveda in the Tonacatepeque municipality of El Salvador’s. According to the news given to International Eurasia Press Fund (IEPF) by IPI, police found Poveda’s body in a car in the small village of El Rosario, with multiple bullet wounds to the head.<br />
IPI Director, David Dadge has said that they were deeply saddened because of the murder of a brave journalist and film-maker C.Poveda and also stated that it’s hoped that El Salvador’s authorities would bring the culprits in this killing to justice.
Also included in the news information disseminating from IPI, six Gambian journalists sentenced to two year imprisonment under the claim of ‘sedition will be released. According to the given information, president Yahya Jammeh’s pardon decree was announced on state-run GRTS television on Thursday evening. A statement issued by President Jammeh’s office reportedly announced that the six journalists were to be freed “in the name of the holy month of Ramadan.”
Information Department of IEPF