Release | Response to Threats of “Arrest” and “Deportation” by anti-FGM Activists
![Image](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNI6U66h6tzdcUoaxJ9AV2p8fwxgjPmYG1_7ztjej4QdQLercWZ4BPMwS7HFbtXe7j7jMzX3yfOcZjtPbwCkPaP7ybnyxMOpaq98_ycJc6rvMlWVu6lI5_ZrCgbbsKX7ZWmWlSi8v5imJyZsNJ7_rBhUwL8YUo_Cjdsk3a7H-KsjaxR0uJyiZmlKd8g2g/s320/IMG-20240724-WA0009.jpg)
Release Gambian Women Are Free to Choose is publishing this press release – our fourth this year – to bring to the attention of the Gambian public, the Gambian authorities including the Ministry of Interior, as well as the ECOWAS Representative, Sierra Leone Embassy, U.S. Embassy, other diplomatic missions, local and international NGOs, CSOs, and importantly Gambian and international journalists, recent threats against my person, Dr. Fuambai Sia Nyoko Ahmadu, Founder and Executive Director of Gambian Women are Free to Choose (GWAFC). On July 15, 2024 at around 9am, myself, my personal assistant, Fuambai Jallow, and a colleague from Australia, were verbally harassed in full public view by anti-FGM activist, Ms. Jaha Dukureh, in front of the gates of the National Assembly. Ms. Dukureh was yelling at us and at the riot police guarding the gates instructing the latter to not let me in, screaming “she is not a Gambian, do not let her in, she doesn't belong here!”. In the early morni