Senegal . Request to Lift Amnesty for Deaths in Protests Rejected - Latin American Summary

After partial censorship of the interpretive law on amnesty for criminal or criminal acts that occurred between 2021 and 2024, during the demonstrations that agitated the country, the supporters of Ousmane Sonko as well as those of Macky Sall saw it as a disavowal for the opposing camp.

By Al Mayadeen/ Africa in Summary/ April 25, 2025 The Supreme Court rejected the petition of legislators to review an amnesty law that would have paved the way for possible prosecutions for the deaths of dozens of protesters during the anti-government protests between 2021 and 2024. Senegal's Supreme Court rejected [...] Entry Senegal . A request to lift amnesty for deaths in protests was first published in Latin American Summary.