Mr Ngum broke down in tears as he told the court he was protesting electoral reforms in 2016 when he was arrested by Gambian police and tortured by National Intelligence Agency (NIA) officials.
“The universal jurisdiction is narrowing the space for perpetrators,” said Gambian human rights lawyer Abdoulie Fatty. “It also gives hope that slowly but surely the perpetrators cannot escape. That they can run but they cannot hide.”
At the trial (in Switzerland) of former Gambian minister Ousman Sonko, a first witness accused him of killing her husband and claimed that Sonko raped her for several years after the murder.