{"id":83602,"date":"2026-01-16T07:26:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=83602"},"modified":"2026-01-16T07:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:26:17","slug":"ex-jammeh-death-squad-leader-pleads-not-guilty-as-landmark-gambia-trial-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/16\/ex-jammeh-death-squad-leader-pleads-not-guilty-as-landmark-gambia-trial-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Jammeh death squad leader pleads not guilty as landmark Gambia trial opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1Ukkcl.img?w=534&amp;h=300&amp;m=6\" alt=\"In this Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014, file photo, Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh arrives for a summit to address a seminar on security\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Gambia opened its first trial Thursday against a member of the country&#8217;s notorious &#8220;Junglers&#8221; paramilitary unit, which acted as a death squad under the reign of ex-dictator Yahya Jammeh. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/ex-jammeh-death-squad-leader-pleads-not-guilty-as-landmark-gambia-trial-opens\/ar-AA1UkhLJ?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=6969e5856d0741078d50c2105d938b71&amp;ei=51\">Read More<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The Gambia opened its first trial Thursday against a member of the country&#8217;s notorious &#8220;Junglers&#8221; paramilitary unit, which acted as a death&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/west-africa.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83603,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83602\/revisions\/83603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}