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Senegal's Top Court Upholds Opposition Leader Defamation Conviction
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The Supreme Court rejected the referral of the Prime Minister's case, Ousmane Sonko, to the Constitutional Council. According to lawyers, this decision closed the case, which had prevented him from running for president in 2024.
In Senegal, the lawyers of Ousmane Sonko are angry. When the current Prime Minister was still in the opposition, he was sentenced for defamation against the then Minister of Tourism. This conviction had resulted in the leader of the Pastef being ineligible for the presidential election. But now the Supreme Court confirmed this conviction on Tuesday 1 July. Ousmane Sonko is now calling for a new trial.
Senegal's top court upholds opposition leader defamation conviction
Senegal's Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a six-month suspended sentence handed to jailed opposition leader Ousmane Sonko for defamation, a state lawyer said, a decision widely seen as jeopardising his chances of running for president .
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After yesterday's Tuesday meeting, the Supreme Court examined the appeal filed by Sonko's lawyers, the court confirmed his earlier sentence of six months' suspended imprisonment, and a fine of 200 million francs paid to former Minister of Tourism, Mam Bai Iniang. Sonko applied to the Supreme Court for a stay of sentence at the beginning of 2024, justified by irregularities in the course of the case, particularly with regard to defence rights, co…
The joint chambers of the Supreme Court ruled this Tuesday, July 1, 2025: the motion for a stay of execution filed by Pastef leader Ousmane Sonko was dismissed. This procedure aimed to challenge the judgment rendered on January 4, 2024, by the Criminal Chamber, in the defamation trial brought by Mame Mbaye Niang, former Minister of Tourism. By upholding the contested decision, Senegal's highest court definitively confirms the former political op…
On 1 July, the Supreme Court rejected the request of the Prime Minister's lawyers to refer the case back to the Constitutional Council, which closed the libel case that had prevented Ousmane Sonko from appearing in the last presidential election.
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