Sonko trial verdict in Switzerland: maximum punishment
In the trial against former Gambian Interior Minister Ousman Sonko, the Swiss court sentenced him to 20 years' prison for crimes against humanity.
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In the trial against former Gambian Interior Minister Ousman Sonko, the Swiss court sentenced him to 20 years' prison for crimes against humanity.
An ex-prison guard has testified before a Swiss court about the murder of Gambian politician Baba Jobe while he was in custody in 2011, when Ousman Sonko was Minister of the Interior. But Sonko blames Yahya Jammeh.
Mr Sonko denied wrongdoing and argued that he neither exercised administrative nor operational oversight over the prisons.
It is not just Gambians hoping for justice in this case.
Mr Sonko faces charges of murder, rape, false imprisonment, torture, among others.