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Autopsy Shows Dead Senegal Student Suffered Multiple Traumas
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In Senegal, the arm continues between the students and the authorities. A strike movement begins on February 17, 2026 in Senegalese universities. The friendly students of the University Sheikh Anta Diop of Dakar (Ucad) demand the release of students still in detention, the truth about the death of a student who died last Monday on campus, as well as the payment of scholarships.
The tear gas first enters the avenues, then in the pavilions. The Senegalese police break into the campus of the University of Dakar Cheikh Anta Diop on February 9, with the official order to protect the infrastructure. But the videos shot with the phones by students are verified by international warheads and show another scene: agents entering the social campus, tear gas fired near the residences, gangstered on unarmed boys. In those hours, bet…
Video - A dead man, Abdoulaye Ba; dozens of young people injured, many of them very seriously... The videos authenticated by "The World" testify to the brutality of the repression of the student movement, in the very enclosure of the University Sheikh-Anta-Diop.
Autopsy shows dead Senegal student suffered multiple traumas
A Senegalese student who died during a university police intervention that shook the nation suffered "multiple traumas" and "massive internal bleeding", according to an autopsy report circulated widely in Senegalese media.
The medical student who died on 9 February at the University of Dakar during a police intervention died as a result of "polytraumatism", "complicated massive internal haemorrhages", indicates an autopsy report, which removes "an isolated natural cause".
In a note made public this Monday, Amnesty International Senegal expressed its condolences to the family of student Abdoulaye Ba, who died as a result of a police intervention at Sheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar (UCAD). In a note made public, the human rights organisation expressed its solidarity with the victim's relatives and announced that legal aid will be granted to the family. Amnesty International states that it will be held alongside…
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