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Published on 2024-03-06 21:56:44
After several hours of plenary sessions in the National Assembly, the MPs finally expressed their position on the Amnesty bill on Wednesday, March 6, 2024.
Following several hours of debate, the lawmakers ultimately passed the Amnesty law. A proposal for an amnesty law was introduced in the National Assembly by the Senegalese President, Macky Sall.
This law aims to automatically grant amnesty for all acts that could be considered as criminal or correctional offenses committed between February 1, 2021, and February 25, 2024, both in Senegal and abroad, and related to demonstrations or politically motivated, including those disseminated by any means of communication, whether they have been subject to judgments or not.
According to this proposal, the amnesty would result in the total waiver of all principal, accessory, and ancillary sentences, as well as the removal of any forfeitures, exclusions, incapacities, and deprivations of rights related to the sentence, without the possibility of reinstatement. However, it would not affect the rights of third parties.
Furthermore, the law proposal states that physical coercion could not be imposed on convicted individuals benefiting from the amnesty, except at the request of the victims of the offense or their heirs.
Any disputes regarding the application of this amnesty law would be examined by the appeals chamber of the Court of Appeal of Dakar, in accordance with the provisions set out in the Criminal Procedure Code.
Finally, the law proposal includes a strict prohibition for any magistrate or official to recall or allow to persist, in any form, in a judicial or police file, or in any official document, the convictions, forfeitures, exclusions, incapacities, and deprivations of rights erased by the amnesty, except for specific provisions. However, the minutes of judgments or rulings as well as the decrees, orders, and decisions made within the framework of public service or national orders would not be subject to this prohibition when they are deposited in registries or in the National Archives.
Read the original article(French) on Senegal Direct
