Here's a pic from today's NUJ/IFJ/TUC/Amnesty protest outside the Gambian Embassy, where Gambian and UK unionists handed in a letter protesting at the arrest and scheduled trial for sedition of seven Gambia Press Union officials and Gambian unionised journalists.

General Secretary of the National Union of Journalists Jeremy Dear, who took part in the protest, said: 'These seven journalists have been locked up and put on trial for writing stories and press releases that would be part of normal democratic debate in most countries of the world. The NUJ calls for their immediate and unconditional release and for the Government of Gambia to change their media laws to allow genuine freedom of expression.'

You can take an urgent Amnesty letter/fax action to help this case here.