JAILED FORMER INTERIOR MINISTER SONKO'S APPEAL OPENS ON MARCH 30 – The Standard Newspaper

Appeal trial against former Interior Minister Sonko opens in March 2026

His trial was the second for crimes against humanity in Swiss judicial history. Ousman Sonko was also the highest-ranking state official ever to be tried in Europe for international crimes under the principle of universal jurisdiction.   The appeal trial will take place on the following dates: Opening of the proceedings: 30 March 2026 at 9h30 Hearing dates: 03. - 02.04.2026 07 - 10.04.2026 14 - 17.04.2026 Reserve dates: 20 - 24.04.2026 29 - 30.…

JAILED FORMER INTERIOR MINISTER SONKO'S APPEAL OPENS ON MARCH 30 – The Standard Newspaper

By Patience Mama Loum The appeal trial of Ousman Sonko,a former Interior Minister of The Gambia, will open on 30 March  before the Higher Appeals Chamber of the Swiss Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona, Switzerland, marking a critical next phase in one of Europe’s most significant universal jurisdiction cases. Sonko was convicted on 15 May 2024 of multiple counts of crimes against humanity for abuses committed between 2000 and 2016, during the…