Senegal: a first wave of detainees released against a backdrop of political crisis. There were around ten of them who began to trickle out of prisons, after having obtained provisional release.
Two weeks after the postponement of the presidential election by outgoing President Macky Sall, civil society and the opposition put pressure on the government to release so-called political detainees. “Let the fight continue ,” said Toussaint Manga, a member of the dissolved Pastef party, who was arrested last August.