Lawyer for Jammeh enforcer argues Swiss prosecutors failed to connect Sonko to alleged crimes
Mr Currat said prosecutors had not provided sufficient evidence linking Mr Sonko to the violations for which he is accused.
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Mr Currat said prosecutors had not provided sufficient evidence linking Mr Sonko to the violations for which he is accused.
By Mustapha K Darboe with New Narratives
11 witnesses have testified in the trial of Ousman Sonko, the former Gambian Interior Minister accused of crimes against humanity before the Swiss courts. The trial will continue in March.
“The universal jurisdiction is narrowing the space for perpetrators,” said Gambian human rights lawyer Abdoulie Fatty. “It also gives hope that slowly but surely the perpetrators cannot escape. That they can run but they cannot hide.”
At the trial (in Switzerland) of former Gambian minister Ousman Sonko, a first witness accused him of killing her husband and claimed that Sonko raped her for several years after the murder.