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Hear Their Stories: Slain Journalist Deyda Hydara’s Story as Told by Agnès Callamard
In December 2004,
he was murdered in a drive-by shooting.
The family at the
time and subsequently has pointed out that Mr.
Hydara was under heavy police surveillance because of
his political press freedom activities. And therefore, it
was very unlikely
that the government either
didn't know about the plan to kill him, or was not involved
in the actual act of killing.
In the lead-up to the one-year anniversary of journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, Agnès Callamard, director of Columbia’s Global Freedom of Expression initiative and a United Nations Special Rapporteur, spoke to Columbia News about the threats journalists face around the world.
Deyda Hydara, a journalist from Gambia and press freedom activist, was the editor of The Point, an important critical voice in Gambia’s restrictive and repressive press freedom environment. In December 2004, Hydara was murdered in a drive-by shooting. #HearTheirStories