Senegal: Ndèye Sow Leïla remanded in custody
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Beninwebtv
Ndèye Sow Leïla, president of Senegal’s Union for Progress and Renewal, was remanded in custody in Dakar on 22 October. She is due to stand trial on 26 October for disseminating false information, public online insults and speech contrary to public morals, according to Seneweb and PressAfrik.
Senegalese political figure Ndèye Sow Leïla was remanded in custody on Thursday 22 October by the public prosecutor in Dakar. She is being prosecuted for disseminating false information, public insults committed using a computer system and speech contrary to public morals, according to Seneweb and PressAfrik.
The president of the Union for Progress and Renewal of Senegal, Ndèye Sow Leïla, is due to appear on Monday 26 October before the flagrante delicto court. The proceedings follow a complaint by the And Samm Jikko Yi association over remarks attributed to her during a Public SN TV programme, reports Dakaractu.
The political figure had been summoned by the Special Cybersecurity Division before being placed in police custody after her questioning. The Front for the Defence of Democracy and the Republic condemned the measure and called for the proceedings to be halted in a statement published on 21 October. Ndèye Sow Leïla remains in provisional detention and is presumed innocent.
