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THE WEEK IN RIGHTS September 17, 2015 Follow us on:

Gambia's Intelligence Agent-Turned-Defector Speaks Out Bakary's' ID card from his time working for the NIA © Private Just past 10 p.m. one night in November 2012, Bakary was pushed into a cell deep inside the headquarters of Gambia’s dreaded National Intelligence Agency (NIA). The cell was so notorious it had its own name: bambadinka – “the crocodile hole.” There was almost no air in the tiny, mosquito-infested black space, and six thick padlocks made escape impossible. Bambadinka was the very worst cell in the entire NIA complex – a fact which, as a senior intelligence official himself, Bakary knew only too well. “It was at this point that I started to think I might die,” he told Human Rights Watch. Read his story » share on:

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