Darian Pavli/CPJ Guest Blogger
Darian Pavli is a senior lawyer at the Open Society Justice Initiative. He focuses on freedom of information and expression issues in Africa, Latin America, and Central and Eastern Europe.
Pursuing justice for Gambia’s Deyda Hydara
December 16 will be the seventh anniversary of the killing of Deyda Hydara, the dean of Gambian journalism. It is also the 20th anniversary of the first issue of The Point, the courageously independent-minded daily that Hydara founded and directed for many years. He was murdered in a drive-by shooting as he drove himself and…