“My team met with Baba Hydara, son of late Gambian journalist Deyda Hydara, to discuss justice for all victims of the Jammeh regime,” she said. “Thank you for sharing your family’s story and your advocacy work with us. We continue to be inspired by the Gambian people’s fight for justice!”
Mr Hydara, The Point’s co-publisher, is in the US to take part in a panel discussion organised by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on issues of human rights violations and press freedom around the world. He is also expected to meet with members of US Congress, other personalities and the Gambian community in DC, the United States, to discuss The Gambia’s transition to democracy, the case or indictment of former Gambian death squad member Michael Sang Correa before the US District Court of Colorado by the US Department of Justice, for human rights crimes committed in The Gambia under former president Yahya Jammeh and to seek justice for Jammeh’s victims.
Dr Beth Van Schaack is an American attorney and academic who serves as the United States Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice.
