The Attorney General’s Chambers Ministry of Justice has today appealed Justice Basiru Mahoney’s judgment in a treason, inciting mutiny, and concealment
The Gambia Journal can confirm that on Tuesday, the Swiss Criminal Court published an amended, reinforced, and updated fresh indictment pertaining to crimes against humanity preferred on former Yahya Jammeh’s Minister of Interior, Ousman Sonko.
Ousman Sonko, the former interior minister of the Gambia, will stay behind bars until his trial for crimes against humanity begins on January 8, 2024. In a ruling made public on Monday, the Swiss Federal Criminal Court (TPF) has also decided so.
Gorgui Sowe’s case was today called at the High court before Justice Ebrima Jaiteh. Gorgui is accused of causing grievous bodily harm to his wife and has appeared in the High Court.
A German court on Thursday sentenced Bai Lowe, a Gambian former soldier to life in prison over his participation in a death squad that assassinated opponents of former dictator Yahya Jammeh, including an AFP journalist.
On trial in Germany for alleged crimes against humanity, murder, and attempted murder while serving under former President Yahya Jammeh’s command, Bai Lowe, a former member of the Gambian Armed Forces and part of “The Junglers,” is scheduled to learn his verdict.
Bai Lowe is alleged to have been a member of Gambian ex-dictator Yahya Jammeh’s notorious death squad known as the “patrol team” or “Junglers”.
German prosecutors on Thursday demanded life in prison for a Gambian man accused of belonging to a death squad that murdered opponents of former dictator Yahya Jammeh, including an AFP journalist.
The Gambia has on Thursday got the support of 5 European nations around the world and Canada who are now seeking to be part of a case brought by The Gambia at the United Nations’ highest court docket that accuses Myanmar of committing genocide towards its Rohingya minority.
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