Senegal: Intellectuals Challenge Macky Sall on Respect for Rights and Justice

maryam lahbal
maryam lahbal
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In an electric political context less than a year from the presidential election, more than a hundred intellectuals signed a platform addressed to the Senegalese president. Fatou Sow, Boubacar Boris Diop, Sophie Bessis, and even Mamadou Diouf challenge the Head of State on a “violation of rights” and the “instrumentalization of justice”,

Academics, writers, or even journalists from Senegal, the United States, France, or Canada… The signatories say they express themselves “beyond their divergences and ideological, political or cultural differences”. They condemn “the restrictions on the freedom of movement of citizens”, and the “continuous instrumentalization of justice”.

Among them, Amadou Tidiane Wone, former Senegalese Minister of Culture: “Acts that are taken lead to the belief that there is a resumption of justice, in particular the prosecution. We have the increasingly exacerbated feeling that there is a stranglehold on a certain number of procedures, in particular political ones. »

The government has regularly denied any interference in judicial proceedings. After three dismissals, Ousmane Sonko’s defamation trial is scheduled for March 30.

Maryam Lahbal

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