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(Geneva, 15 May 2024) – Ousman Sonko, Gambian former Minister of Interior, was convicted today of crimes against humanit...
Visual guilty verdict Ousman Sonko
(22-24 January 2024, Federal Criminal Court, Bellinzona, Switzerland) [caption id="attachment_27380" align="alignnone"...
Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona
(15-19 January 2024, Federal Criminal Court, Bellinzona, Switzerland) [caption id="attachment_27322" align="alignnone"...
(8-12 January 2024, Federal Criminal Court, Bellinzona, Switzerland) The trial of Ousman Sonko opened on 8 January 2024...
©TRIAL International / plaintiffs, plaintiffs’ lawyers and TRIAL representatives before the Swiss Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona.
The trial of Ousman Sonko – the former Gambian Interior Minister accused of having committed multiple crimes against hum...
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Ousman Sonko, suspected of having committed crimes against humanity and imprisoned in Switzerland for the past f...

Detention extended for former Minister Ousman Sonko

03.05.2017 - (Last modified: 12.07.2017)
Geneva, 3 May 2017 - The Court of Measures of Constraint in Bern has decided to prolong the detention of Ousman Sonko. T...
Geneva, 26 January 2017 - Dictator Yahya Jammeh has reigned for 20 years over Gambia – a reign that saw the widespread u...
Commentary written by activists Fatou Baldeh, CEO of Women in Liberation & Leadership (WILL); Nana-Jo Ndow, founder...
Illustration article_Sonko case_The Republic
The conviction of former Gambian Interior Minister Ousman Sonko in Switzerland for crimes against humanity on 15 May 2024 is historical in many ways. However, the decision by the Swiss Federal Criminal Court’s (FCC) to dismiss all charges of sexual violence casts a shadow over this landmark verdict. Ousman Sonko was found guilty of three murders, multiple acts of tort...

Sonko case: voices of the victims

11.07.2017 - (Last modified: 12.07.2017)
The Attorney General of Switzerland has heard two victims in the investigation against Ousman Sonko. The former Gambian...
The German Federal Court of Justice announced on November 29, 2024 that it had rejected the appeal of a former member of...
Infographic depicting the chronology of the Bai Lowe case.
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