Africa-Press – Senegal. Léon Gningue, an activist of the former Pastef-Les Patriotes party, was arrested on Tuesday at Blaise Diagne International Airport in Diass by elements of the Criminal Investigations Division (DIC), a learned the APS from a police source.
Mr. Gningue is accused of publications “similar to an offense to the Head of State” on his social accounts, specifies the same source.
Elle ajoute que Léon Gningue est également poursuivi pour « actes et manœuvres de nature à jeter le discrédit sur les institutions ».
Léon Gingue, responsable de l’ex PASTEF dans la commune de Ndiaganiao, dans le département de Mbour (Thiès, ouest), est en train d’être auditionné à la Division des investigations criminelles.
Opponent Ousmane Sonko was indicted on July 29 for calling for insurrection, undermining state security, criminal association in connection with a terrorist enterprise, conspiracy against state authority, acts aimed at jeopardize public safety and create serious political unrest and theft.
He was sentenced in early June to two years in prison for youth corruption in the rape trial against Adji Sarr, a former employee of a massage parlor in Dakar.
In May, he received a six-month suspended prison sentence following a defamation trial.
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