Senegal top court rejects bid to lift amnesty for protest deaths - Regional Media News

The decision of the Constitutional Council on the interpretative law of the amnesty law, is largely commented on by the daily newspapers of Thursday 24 April 2025. The Constitutional Council ruled, contrary to the Constitution, in article 1 of the Law on the interpretation of the amnesty law, adop

Senegal top court rejects bid to lift amnesty for protest deaths - Regional Media News

DAKAR (Reuters) – Senegal’s top court has rejected a move by lawmakers to revise an amnesty law that would have paved the way for possible prosecutions over the deaths of dozens of protesters during anti-government demonstrations between 2021 and 2024. The West African country’s parliament had approved revisions earlier this month to the law, which was passed in March 2024 under former President Macky Sall to pardon offences committed by both se…

By Mawunyo Hermann Boko /Jeune Afrique / Africa in Summary / April 23, 2025. The text adopted by the National Assembly at the beginning of April would have allowed prosecution of the crimes of torture, murder and murder, provided for in the initial amnesty law, approved during the presidency of former Macky Sall. But the Council [...] The entry Senegal. The Constitutional Council rejects the interpretative law on amnesty was first published in L…

The text adopted by the National Assembly in early April would have made it possible to try the crimes of torture, murder and murder covered by the original amnesty law, passed under former President Macky Sall. But the Constitutional Council decided otherwise.

In a note made public, the Constitutional Council rejected, on Wednesday, 23 April 2025, the interpretive law of the Amnesty Act introduced by the deputy Amadou Ba and adopted in early April 2025 by the National Assembly. In a publication published on his social media, the journalist Ayoba Faye made a major clarification following this decision, which is beginning to provoke the reaction of Senegaleses. "Small shade: The Constitutional Council d…