Protesters gathered at the premises of ''maison de la presse'' or press house in Dakar, Senegal Wednesday to demand the release of jailed journalist and prominent anti-government critic, Pape Alé Niang. Head of the Dakar Matin online news website, translated as Dakar Morning, Niang has been in detention for the past two weeks after been charged with ''divulging information likely to harm national defense'' following an arrest on Nov. 6. Niang, widely followed in Senegal for his regular columns on current affairs, was released on December 14 but sent back to prison a week later. He has been on a hunger strike since his latest imprisonment on December 20 with his lawyer saying that he's ''extremely strained.'' Director of Amnesty International Senegal, Seydi Gassama, Sadibou Marone, director of Reporters Without Borders in West Africa and Member of Parliament for the opposition coalition Yewwi Askan, Guy Marius Sagna attended the protest and joined calls for his immediate release.