An incident broke out on Friday, during the press conference organized by the Citizen Initiative “Justice for our Martyrs” at the Amnesty International Senegal headquarters in Dakar. Pape Ousmane Seck, a former political prisoner and member of the “special forces”, present in the audience, strongly denounced the politicization of their fight for justice and the exclusion of former political prisoners from the event. From the beginning of the press conference, Mamadou Lamine Sambou, president of the administrative and financial commission of the collective of victims of the Macky era, and Thioro Mandela, a journalist, took the floor. The latter criticised the absence of the new authorities: “We have fought for you, the authorities, to come to power. More than a year after your accession to power, nous continue à réclamer justice. It is a shame, et rien n’a encore changé.
Tensions during the press conference of “Justice for our Martyrs” : Pape Ousmane Seck speaks of the “politicization of the fight”
