{"id":103778,"date":"2022-07-18T10:47:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T08:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/?p=103778"},"modified":"2022-07-18T10:47:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T08:47:46","slug":"gambia-death-penalty-former-leaders-national-intelligence-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/103778-gambia-death-penalty-former-leaders-national-intelligence-agency.html","title":{"rendered":"Gambia: death penalty for former leaders of the national intelligence agency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>On July 13, 6 members of the top leadership of the National Intelligence Agency, a place notorious for torture and disappearance under the regime of Yahya Jammeh (1994-2017), were sentenced to death for their role in the 2016 killing of political activist Ebrima Solo Sandeng, and other crimes.\u00a0This was the most high-profile case connected to Jammeh\u2019s crimes to be prosecuted in the Gambia.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>On July 22, 2016, the main political opponent of Gambia\u2019s then president Yahya Jammeh \u2014 Ousainu Darboe \u2014 walked into a quiet courtroom in the High Court complex in Banjul, Gambia\u2019s capital city.&nbsp;The place was packed with his supporters and families of over a dozen executive members of the United Democratic Party (UDP) arrested with him. The vicinity of the court was equally packed with UDP supporters, often clashing with paramilitary forces.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was barely 5 months before the presidential election that Jammeh would lose to Adama Barrow, a former treasurer of the UDP. The political climate was intense.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Darboe has been Jammeh\u2019s main political rival since 1996. He was now sentenced to 3 years in jail for holding a peaceful protest demanding the return of the body of Ebrima Solo Sandeng, a former UDP youth leader who had died in the hands of operatives of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) on April 15. A day before his death Sandeng had been arrested with over a dozen others for holding a peaceful protest demanding proper electoral reforms. The state admitted his death in custody. But they refused to release his body which, his murder trial would confirm, was buried at a training school of the NIA, an hour drive from Banjul. They claimed Sandeng died of \u201cshock and respiratory failure\u201d, in a death certificate signed by one Lamin Lang Sanyang.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Treating death with disdain<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Six years later, on July 13, in the same court it was now the turn of the former leadership of the NIA to appear before Justice Kumba Sillah Camara and learn about their fate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ex-NIA chief Yankuba Badjie, former deputy director of operations Sheikh Omar Jeng, and agents Baboucarr Sallah, Masireh Tamba, and Lamin Darboe were found guilty of murdering Sandeng. They were all sentenced to death. (Death penalty still stands in the Gambia although it has not been applied for years. Death penalties are usually commuted to life imprisonment.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEven after his death, his body was treated with disdain. Even the gloves they wore while digging his grave were thrown at him in the grave. He was not given a Muslim burial which he was entitled to as a Muslim,\u201d said Justice Kumba Sillah Camara, as he delivered his judgement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The judge also found the six men guilty of inflicting bodily harm to the dozen others arrested with Sandeng.&nbsp;The doctor, who is in fact a nurse, Lamin Lang Sanyang, was found to have forged the death certificate of Sandeng and lied to the court about it. He got a 10-year sentence. The seventh accused in the trial,&nbsp;Haruna Susso, walked free as there was no evidence linking him to the death of Sandeng. Another accused, Luis Gomez, had died in detention.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was the most talked-about, high-profile case connected to Jammeh\u2019s crimes to be prosecuted in the Gambia. The Ministry of Justice, struggling with capacity challenges, had hired private lawyers to handle it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A 300-page judgment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Fatoumata Sandeng last saw her father in the morning of April 14, 2016. \u201cHe told me they were going for a protest. In my mind, I think he knew he would be arrested because that was the norm in the Gambia,\u201d she told Justice Info.&nbsp;While at work, she heard about his arrest but her father was held incommunicado. She would only learn later through others that he was tortured to death. \u201cThe manner in which he was killed will always remain there. It hurts every single minute,\u201d she said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fatoumata Sandeng is part of the movement \u201cJammeh-2-justice\u201d, which puts her at the center of the civil society crusade for Jammeh to be tried. However, on the day of the ruling, Sandeng had had no prior notification and she could not attend.&nbsp;Her brother who was in court called her on WhatsApp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a long day. The 300-page judgement was read from 9 a.m to 8 p.m. \u201cIt was worth it. I could not sit helplessly without feeling I was present because I really wanted to be there,\u201d said Fatoumatta Sandeng.&nbsp;\u201cLike my little sister told me this morning, it is like she is living in another world. She could feel some ease in her heart,\u201d&nbsp;Fatoumatta\u2019s sister said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The main missing target<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Since his fall from grace in January 2017, Gambia\u2019s former ruler has been exiled in Equatorial Guinea. But the grip of justice seems to be tightening. A state inquiry established by his successor Adama Barrow found Jammeh responsible for several killings. At least 5 members of Jammeh\u2019s hit-squad, called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/42026-gambia-full-terror-exposed-before-the-trrc.html\">the Junglers, have confessed<\/a> during the inquiry to involvement in several executions and had an undisclosed deal with the state for their freedom.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/79933-yankuba-touray-sentenced-to-death-in-gambia.html\">A former senior government minister under his regime is serving life<\/a> for killing the country's former Finance minister Ousman Koro Ceesay. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/86932-five-years-on-slow-wheels-swiss-justice-gambian-case.html\">A former Interior minister under his regime is in pre-trial detention in Switzerland<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/93205-gambian-trial-germany-line-between-witness-suspect.html\">A former Jungler is being tried in Germany<\/a> for involvement in the execution of prominent journalist Deyda Hydara while another Jungler is being detained in the United States.\u00a0In May <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/92890-gambia-validates-truth-commission-work-and-promises-justice.html\">the Barrow administration said they have accepted the recommendation to prosecute Jammeh<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"The long arm of the law is catching up to Jammeh\u2019s accomplices, one by one, in Gambia and around the world. What victims are expecting now is that the government will deliver on the long-delayed promise of justice by setting up a more thorough legal framework to allow the prosecution of Jammeh himself and all those who bear the greatest responsibility for the crimes of his regime,\" said Reed Brody, an American lawyer who is working with victims of Jammeh and is part of the campaign \u201cJammeh-2-justice\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"articleLink articleLink--editorRecommanded articleLink--textInImage articleLink--textTop\" style=\"\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"articleLinkSurTitle\">Recommended reading<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<a class=\"articleLinkImageLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/68416-gambia-truth-commission-hears-the-nia-torturers.html\"><div class=\"articleLinkImageContainer \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gambie_TRRC-Omar-Cham_@Mustapha-K-Darboe-540x360.jpg\" class=\"articleLinkImage backgroundImageTag w-100 wp-post-image\" alt=\"Omar Cham testifies befor the Trutch Commission (TRRC) in Gambia.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gambie_TRRC-Omar-Cham_@Mustapha-K-Darboe-540x360.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gambie_TRRC-Omar-Cham_@Mustapha-K-Darboe-730x487.jpg 730w, https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gambie_TRRC-Omar-Cham_@Mustapha-K-Darboe.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/div><\/a>\r\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/68416-gambia-truth-commission-hears-the-nia-torturers.html\" class=\"articleLinkTitle articleLinkTitle--default\">\r\n\t\t\tGambia\u2019s Truth Commission hears the NIA torturers\r\n\t\t<\/a>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 13, 6 members of the top leadership of the National Intelligence Agency, a place notorious for torture and disappearance under the regime of Yahya Jammeh (1994-2017), were sentenced to death for their role in the 2016 killing of political activist Ebrima Solo Sandeng, and other crimes.\u00a0This was the most high-profile case connected to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":103768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[2639],"ji_location":[2509],"class_list":["post-103778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-tribunals","tag-nia-en","ji_location-gambia"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.3.1 (Yoast SEO v25.3.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gambia: death penalty for former leaders of the national intelligence agency - JusticeInfo.net<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"On July 13, 6 members of the top leadership of the National Intelligence Agency, a place notorious for torture and disappearance under the regime of Yahya Jammeh (1994-2017), were sentenced to death for their role in the 2016 killing of political activist Ebrima Solo Sandeng, and other crimes. 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