INTERNATIONAL REPORT AMNESTY SENEGAL: Wade and Macky at the foot of equality

Amnesty International Senegal has released today its report on the situation of human rights in the world. In the case of Senegal, Senegal Amnesty noted no improvement in the human rights situation under Macky Sall. According to the report, in terms of human rights violations, Macky Sall and Wade are at the foot of equality.

According to the report, Senegal, Justice investigated and found very few cases of torture, deaths in custody or as a result of excessive use of force by the police and the gendarmerie that marked the 12-year rule President Abdoulaye Wade. Some investigations have been followed up without families and their lawyers being informed. Others sleep in the drawers of the magistrates for nearly 10 years. This fact, which is a denial of justice, increases the frustration of parents and created a climate of impunity, and other serious violations of human rights by security forces. Since the arrival of President Macky Sall to power, the police were implicated in the death of two people: Kecouta Sidibé August 12 Kédougou and Bambo Danfakha 14 2013 Diyabougou friend in the Department of Bakel.
Senegal Amnesty International calls on the government to declassify all information relating to the bloody crackdown against a third candidacy of Abdoulaye Wade between January and March 2012. This would, according to the report, the magistrates to move faster in their work and to pursue and instigators of this repression.
Freedom to manifest. About infringements on freedom of assembly and peaceful demonstration, the report states that the government Macky Sall continued to ban rallies and demonstrations initiated by political parties, trade unions and civil society both in Dakar and in the regions. The reasons often cited: threat of disturbing public order, lack of security service, are not credible in the eyes of human rights in Senegal. As regards freedom of assembly and peaceful protest, the expected rupture with age Abdoulaye Wade has not taken place and this is a real concern for Amnesty International.
Freedom of Expression: On freedom of expression and opinion, according to the report, refugees and asylum seekers were expelled from Senegal for exercising their right to freedom of opinion and expression. These evictions were made, according to the report, in total violation of the judicial and administrative procedures in Senegal. Chad makaila Nguebla was deported to Guinea May 7, 2013. The Gambian Kukoye Samba Sagna, who has acquired the Senegalese national, was deported to Mali 18 April 2013. President Macky Sall has sacrificed the reputation of land Teranga (hospitality) of Senegal requirements tyrannical regimes Yaya Jammeh and Idriss Déby. Amnesty condemns forced evictions that are contrary to international law and calls for their immediate cessation.
Tracking of ill-gotten gains. On the hunt for alleged ill-gotten wealth and respect for the presumption of innocence, Amnesty International Senegal supports legal actions by the government to punish the perpetrators of embezzlement and other acts of bad governance. But this hunt must be done, according to Amnesty, in strict compliance with the human rights of defendants including the presumption of their innocence. Amnesty International reiterates its call on the government to abide by all decisions of the Court of Justice of ECOWAS that the lifting of the interdictionj of leaving the country of people who are not charged or prosecuted.