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17 January 2024 – Day 8: Examination of Ousman Sonko’s responsibility over the deprivat...
17.01.2024 - (Last modified: 20.01.2026)
Global
Ousman Sonko is being accused, in complicity with a group of perpetrators, of having tortured several political opponents and illegally depriving them of their liberty in the context of a political demonstration organized in April 2016 in Banjul. Within this context, Ousman Sonko is in particular suspected of having tortured and then killed one of the organize...
Day 6: Examination of Ousman Sonko’s responsibility over Baba Jobe’s murder in 2011
15.01.2024 - (Last modified: 19.01.2026) Global
Ousman Sonko is accused of having intentionally killed Baba Jobe – a former member of the National Assembly – in Banjul in October 2011, in complicity with a group of perpetrators.
Ousman Sonko contested all the charges brought against him in relation to this event. A witness was called to testify upon the prosecution’s request.
The witness has been a...
The end of a long wait: Summary of the proceedings of the first week of the trial of Ou...
15.01.2024 - (Last modified: 26.01.2024)
(8-12 January 2024, Federal Criminal Court, Bellinzona, Switzerland)
The trial of Ousman Sonko opened on 8 January 2024 before the Swiss Federal Criminal Court (FCC). A panel of three judges is examining the former Gambian Minister of Interior’s responsibility over the numerous crimes against humanity that he is accused of having committed between 2000 and 2016, unde...
Ousman Sonko case: the second trial for crimes against humanity in Switzerland to take ...
03.11.2023 - (Last modified: 07.12.2023)
The Gambia's Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) confirms Ousman So...
26.01.2022 - (Last modified: 01.12.2022)
Detention extended for former Minister Ousman Sonko
03.05.2017 - (Last modified: 12.07.2017)
Torture in Gambia: ex-Minister Ousman Sonko must face his responsibilities
26.01.2017 - (Last modified: 29.11.2017)
Sonko case: How a Swiss court failed survivors of sexual violence in The Gambia, and wo...
17.06.2024 - (Last modified: 14.06.2024)
Sonko case: a historic conviction, yet a missed opportunity to recognize sexual violenc...
24.05.2024 - (Last modified: 05.06.2024)
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...
Day 5 Sonko trial: Continuation of the examination of the March 2006 charges
12.01.2024 - (Last modified: 22.12.2025)
(acts of torture, false imprisonment and sexual violence committed as crimes against humanity)
As part of an attempted coup d'état in March 2006, Ousman Sonko is being accused, as an accomplice of a group of perpetrators, of having tortured various people, including members of the army, politicians and journalists, of having illegally deprived them of their free...
Day 4 Sonko trial: Examination of the March 2006 charges
11.01.2024 - (Last modified: 22.12.2025)
(acts of torture, false imprisonment and sexual violence committed as crimes against humanity)
As part of an attempted coup d'état in March 2006, Ousman Sonko is being accused, as an accomplice of a group of perpetrators, of having tortured various people, including members of the army, politicians and journalists, of having illegally deprived them of their f...
