[ICYMI] Senegal police clash with students in Dakar
The police were deployed in numbers around Dakar university to deal with the studentsSenegalese police on Wednesday fired tear gas during clashes with students trying to take part in a banned demonstration in the capital Dakar on the eve of the resumption of an opposition leader's trial.
The journalist was then arrested and frogmarched away to a van, while a police officer threw a tear gas canister towards other media representatives who attempted to intercede on his behalf. This behaviour"casts doubt on the repeated assurances of the Senegalese authorities regarding the free exercise of the profession and raises serious questions about the safety of journalists in the pre-election period", he added.Senegal, a rare island of stability in the troubled West African region, is seeing another tense week with the resumption of the libel trial against Ousmane Sonko on Thursday.
The presidential party accuses Sonko of seeking to paralyse the country and of using the street to escape justice.
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