The Gambia’s United Democratic Party has condemned Monday’s arrest of a leader of the former ruling Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction Party.

The party described as illegal the deployment of personnel of the Gambia Police Force to forcefully enter the private residence of Mr Jerending Sanyang , disrupt a press conference he was hosting and hauling him off to Banjul Police station.

 It added that the conduct of the police were a flagrant violation of the rights of the citizens they victimized including the unprovoked physical assault on Lamin Fatty , a reporter  on assignment to cover the press conference.

 Almamy Tall is the spokesperson for the United Democratic Party.