The amnesty law voted in March 2024 under the regime of the former President of the Republic, Macky Sall, is not adapted to international law. This can be seen from the report drawn up by the Stanford Law School and the Afrikajom Center, published on Wednesday 15 January at the headquarters of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The report, entitled “The Amnesty Law in Senegal: A Denial of Justice”, examined the treaties ratified by Senegal and the case law of regional and international human rights organizations. “This amnesty law should not allow the perpetrators of human rights violations to enjoy a form of impunity, of immunity. It is up to Senegal to comply with international law by investigating and prosecuting the perpetrators of these worst violations of human rights”, said Henri Thulliez, Paris barrister. “The law was a remedy to get out of the political impasse. But it is a poison because it is the impunity that is guaranteed to people who have executed people, who have killed people, who have tortured people. And all this is well documented by the human rights organizations, by the national and international press, by the political parties that were involved, by the State.
Law of Amnesty: very bad news for the regime of Macky Sall
