US EditionSenegal: Prolonged Police Custody for Three Officials of Student Organisations After the Violence in the Ucad
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While almost all of the 109 students arrested at the beginning of the week as part of the violence on the campus of the Sheikh-Anta-Diop University in Dakar were released after their hearing on Wednesday, February 11, the custody of three officials of student organizations was extended. A decision that worries their counterparts who say they feel "trapped" and confide in a safe place.
The police in Dakar are holding three leaders of student organizations - despite the release of 109 students who were arrested earlier this week - against the background of the violence at Sheikh Anta Diop University, which resulted in the death of a student on campus. The hearings of the students arrested ended yesterday - when they were released after being interrogated, with the exception of the leaders of the three student organizations.
Senegal is preparing to host the Youth Olympic Games in 2026, an event that is supposed to celebrate the excellence, peace and unity of world youth. Yet, behind the promises of celebration and sporting glory, there is a much darker reality: that of a repressed youth, bruised, and abandoned by its own leaders. As the stadiums are being built and the official speeches boast the positive legacy of these Games, Senegalese students pay the price for …
They were 109. They are only three more behind bars. But these three weigh heavily in the student balance. Heads of faculty organizations, they are suspected by the police of orchestrating the violence that cost the life of a student, Monday, on the campus of the UCAD. The calm has returned, but the tension remains intact. According to information collected by RFI, the hearings ended on Wednesday 11 February at the end of the day. All the arrest…
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