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Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>Philippe Currat, the lawyer representing Gambia\u2019s former interior minister on trial for crimes against humanity committed under the leadership of former president Yahya Jammeh, has asked the Federal Court of Bellinzona to acquit and award him a US$1m compensation for wrongful detention.<\/b><\/p>\n

Jammeh ruled Gambia with an iron fist and was accused of numerous human rights violations including murder and severe torture by the country\u2019s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparation Commission. Sonko first served in the military, rising through the ranks to command the State Guards, an elite military unit which guards the Gambian presidency, in 2003.<\/p>\n

He would serve both as the head of the Gambia police and the interior minister presiding over the internal security matters of the country from 2006 to 2016.<\/p>\n

In 2016, Sonko fell out with Jammeh and fled to Switzerland. He was arrested in Bern in January 2017, a day after the Geneva-based rights organization\u2014 Trial International\u2014 filed a criminal complaint against him. He was formally indicted by the Swiss Office of the Attorney General before the Federal Criminal Court in April 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201c… Of all the ministers who served during Yahya Jammeh \u0301spresidency, none was ever prosecuted anywhere, neither in The Gambia nor anywhere else, because everyone knows that the responsibility does not lie there, but with the Junglers and the NIA, who were only answerable to the president and no one else,\u201d argued Currat.<\/p>\n

Sonko faces charges of murder, rape, false imprisonment, and torture brought against him by the Swiss authorities and ten Gambian plaintiffs in a trial which began on January 8, 2024.<\/p>\n

\u2018Life imprisonment\u2019<\/p>\n

The hearing of pleadings from the prosecutors and the defense in the Sonko trial began on March 4 and it is expected to end on the 11. In their six hours of submission on Monday, the Swiss prosecutors, citing the Bai Lowe verdict in Germany, have asked the court to sentence Sonko to life imprisonment.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn December last year, the Jungler Bai Lowe, who was involved in various crimes against humanity as a driver, wassentenced to life imprisonment. The defendant \u0301s involvement in the offence and his culpability must be weighed significantly higher in this case,\u201d argued the Swiss prosecutors.<\/p>\n

\u201cTaking all sentencing criteria into account, the Office of the Attorney General therefore requests that the accused be sentenced to life imprisonment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Most of the crimes Sonko is charged with were committed in participation with others. The only two exceptions were the murder of former State Guards soldier Almamo Mannehallegedly killed during a military operation he led and the alleged multiple rape of Binta Jamba, a widow of Manneh, from 2000 to 2005.<\/p>\n

In the course of the 13-day hearing in January, some witnesses have accused the former minister of participating in the panels of investigation that authorise and oversaw torture of detainees and rape of at least one.<\/p>\n

Sonko denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomething became increasingly clear towards the end of the criminal investigation: there seemed to be two faces of OusmanSonko,\u201d argued the Swiss prosecutors.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne face shows an intelligent, attentive, courteous and cooperative suspect who knows of no wrongdoing and has never been guilty of anything. The other face shows a person who was aware of everything from A to Z, who knew about the systematic human rights violations and helped orchestrate them at the highest level, a \u201cmastermind\u201d, a cool, considered planner and strategist, someone without scruples, who was selfish, ambitious, an alpha animal, a person of power who wants to control the situation at all times and hold all the strings.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the pleadings were strictly made in German without translation. The Gambian journalists who travelled to Bellinzonawere forced to rely on online translation tools to follow the hearings. Sonko\u2019s lawyer also complained that his client could not follow the proceedings because of the language barrier.<\/p>\n

Source:<\/b><\/p>\n

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