Switzerland’s attorney general has filed an indictment against the Gambia’s former interior minister for crimes against humanity committed under former authoritarian leader Yahya Jammeh.
The Office of the Attorney General said Ousman Sonko is accused of having supported, participated in and failed to prevent “systematic and generalized attacks” as part of a repressive campaign by security forces against Jammeh’s opponents.
Sonko’s lawyer, Philippe Currat, newsmen today that his client disputed the charges and that some of the alleged acts occurred before articles on crimes against humanity came into force in the Swiss Criminal Code.
Sonko was interior minister from 2006 to 2016 when he fled to Sweden and on to Switzerland, where he applied for asylum.
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