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We Refuse a Return to Permission-Based Journalism in The Gambia   By Former Presidents of the Gambia Press Union   We write not as distant commentators, but as journalists who have lived through the  darkest chapters of media repression in our country. We write as journalists who stood firm when the cost of speaking out was harassment, intimidation, exile, imprisonment — and, for our fallen colleague, friend and former GPU president Deyda Hydara, death itself.   Five former G