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| Africa Live: Gabon's Bongo goes on hunger strike over son's 'torture' - BBC News | Africa Live: Gabon's Bongo goes on hunger strike over son's 'torture' - BBC News |
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| A Gambian former interior minister has been sentenced to 20 years in prison by a court in Switzerland for crimes against humanity committed when President Yahya Jammeh was in power. | |
| Ousman Sonko fled to Switzerland in 2016 and claimed asylum, shortly before Mr Jammeh was voted out of office. | |
| Non-governmental organisations presented evidence of atrocities committed against the former president's political opponents. | |
| A prosecutor said Mr Sonko was convicted for killings, torture and false imprisonment. | |
| Philip Grant, the executive director of Trial International, the NGO that filed the complaint for Mr Sonko's arrest, said on X that the conviction "sends resounding message against impunity". | |
| In a previous hearing, Mr Sonko's lawyer said that he was not responsible for what happened. | |
| Switzerland tried the case under the principle of universal jurisdiction, which allows countries to prosecute people for crimes that took place elsewhere. | |
| Mr Sonko is the highest-ranking government official ever to be prosecuted under this principle in Europe. | |
| Mr Jammeh who lives in exile in Equatorial Guinea has also been accused of human rights abuses. | |
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