DAKAR, Senegal — A student's death ...Amnesty International Senegal and several rights group have denounced a “disproportionate use of force by police” in a joint statement.Protests over stipends.
Separately, on February 11, Falil Gadio, a reporter for the privately owned online channel Senegal 7, was tried and acquitted of charges of “provoking the commission of a crime and incitement to violence” by a Dakar court, the journalist told CPJ.
Senegal on Tuesday called the death of a medical student at a major Dakar university during clashes with police a "tragedy" and acknowledged acts of violence by security forces trying to quell protests ... .
DAKAR, Feb ... "I understand the indignation and the questions being raised. They may be justified ... "Our campuses must never become spaces of violence ... ■. Senegal opens probe into student's death after clashes at UCAD. .
Senegalese police have charged a dozen men with committing “unnatural acts.” ... Senegal is among the countries in which consensual same-sex sexual relations remain criminalized ... ....