Afrigather The attraction trial for defamation towards Senegalese opponent Ousmane Sonko has been postponed to Could eighth, a Dakar court docket introduced Monday (Apr. 17).
The listening to was initially set to happen on April seventeenth.
Sonko’s earlier summons and court docket appearances have provoked civil unrest. His supporters accusing the ruling celebration of instrumentalizing justice to make Sonko ineligible to contest in subsequent yr’s presidency.
Sonko was additionally fined some (300,000 U.S. {dollars}) and was launched from the offences of insult and forgery.
In line with Sonko’s authorized staff, the opposition politician continues to be eligible to run within the presidential elections in 2024.
The 48-year-old politician had claimed Mame Mbaye Niang had been criticised by state inspectors for his administration of a rural unemployment scheme.
The minister’s lawyer, who introduced the attraction to ask for a harder sentence for Sonko, mentioned his shopper, like anybody feeling defamed, has “a proper” to file a grievance.
