{"id":2079,"date":"2024-01-09T09:25:30","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T08:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hirondelle.org\/ousmane-sonko-on-trial-for-crimes-against-humanity-in-switzerland"},"modified":"2024-01-09T09:25:30","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T08:25:30","slug":"ousmane-sonko-on-trial-for-crimes-against-humanity-in-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hirondelle.org\/de\/ousmane-sonko-on-trial-for-crimes-against-humanity-in-switzerland","title":{"rendered":"Ousmane Sonko on trial for crimes against humanity in Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The trial of former Gambian Interior Minister, Ousmane Sonko, began on Monday 8 January before the Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ousmane Sonko is on trial for a series of events and crimes, classified as crimes against humanity, that took place between 2016 and 2000. Portrayed as the right-hand man of former president Yahya Jammeh, the former Gambian interior minister will plead not guilty. It&#8217;s the second trial of this scale to take place in Switzerland and it will run until 30 January.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mariam Sankanu, Gambian investigative journalist and correspondent for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Justice Info<\/a>, is on the spot to cover the trial.<\/p>\n<p>You can find all her articles <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en?s=sonko&amp;sort=relevance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trial of former Gambian Interior Minister, Ousmane Sonko, began on Monday 8 January before the Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona.\u00a0 Ousmane Sonko is on trial for a series of events and crimes, classified as crimes against humanity, that took place between 2016 and 2000. Portrayed as the right-hand man of former president Yahya Jammeh, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[205],"tags":[226],"class_list":["post-2079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-news-de","tag-de_current-project-justice-info"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 03:45:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hirondelle.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hirondelle.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hirondelle.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hirondelle.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hirondelle.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hirondelle.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hirondelle.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hirondelle.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hirondelle.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hirondelle.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}