{"id":1099799,"date":"2022-05-26T08:52:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T08:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/26\/gambia-ready-to-prosecute-ex-president-jammeh-2\/"},"modified":"2022-05-26T08:52:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T08:52:36","slug":"gambia-ready-to-prosecute-ex-president-jammeh-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/26\/gambia-ready-to-prosecute-ex-president-jammeh-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambia Ready To Prosecute Ex-President Jammeh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Gambian government says it is ready to prosecute former President Yahya Jammeh for what it called \u201cthe myriad of crimes\u201d he committed during his rule.<\/p>\n<p>It was responding to a report by the Truth Reconciliation and Reparations Commission, which investigated abuses that took place during his 22 years in power.<\/p>\n<p>The former leader has been accused of corruption and serious human rights violations,  killings, disappearances and imprisonments, targeting opponents, journalists and gay men.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Jammeh came to power in a military coup in 1994, and ruled until 2017 when he went into exile after a shock electoral defeat.<\/p>\n<p>The 57-year-old now lives in Equatorial Guinea, which, according to the AFP news agency, has no extradition treaty with The Gambia.<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gambian government says it is ready to prosecute former President Yahya Jammeh for what it called \u201cthe myriad of crimes\u201d he committed during his rule. It was responding to a report by the Truth Reconciliation and Reparations Commission, which investigated abuses that took place during his 22 years in power. The former leader has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1099801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[14977,189,14978,4669,718],"class_list":["post-1099799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-expresident","tag-gambia","tag-jammeh","tag-prosecute","tag-ready"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1099799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1099799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1099799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1099799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}