Lawyer for Binta Jamba, Ms Annina Mullis, said the allegations of multiple charges of rape against Ousman Sonko by her client, together with another victim that were discontinued by the Swiss federal Criminal Court do not exonerate Ousman Sonko of these crimes.
Speaking to us in Zurich after the verdict in Bellinzona , Switzerland, Binta Jamba's ruthless and uncompromising, protective lawyer argued that discontinuing the case of Binta Jamba is in no way an acquittal for Ousman Sonko. She further maintained that the decision does not mean that the court did not recognize the fact of the rape.
Ms. Mullis argues that such a decision follows a pattern of disregarding sexual and gender-based violence as a systematic violence and intentional tool used in oppressive systems against women that also affects the broader society. To proof that point to the court, the lawyer had requested several witnesses to testify to this fact, which all had been rejected by the court. Also, they could not provide relevant information...
"As part of the described extensive and systematic attack against the civilian population, the accused, as a then captain of the State Guard, is said to have regularly raped the widow of the killed coup-suspect soldier Almamo MANNEH, in Tujereng and Bakau between 2000 and 2002. He is also said to have imprisoned in Banjul for several days in January 2005 as the then commander of the first infantry battalion, and repeatedly tortured and raped her," prosecution explained to the Court.
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