Gambia’s former president Yahya Jammeh accused of rape and sexual assault – Tek Portal

The companies allege that Jammeh applied his aides to pressure women to go to him in his personal home where he would sexually abuse them, according to a assertion from Human Legal rights Enjoy Wednesday.“Yahya Jammeh addressed Gambian ladies like his particular residence,” Reed Brody, of Human Rights Look at, reported in a assertion. “Rape and sexual assault are crimes, and Jammeh is not previously mentioned the law.”Jammeh was Gambia’s chief from 1994 to 2016 he took electricity in a armed service coup but experienced a shock election defeat to Adama Barrow in December 2016.
He is presently residing in exile in Equatorial Guinea.
Jammeh has not responded to initiatives to get to him. However, Ousman Rambo Jatta, the Deputy leader of the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Development Social gathering (APRC), the ruling occasion when Jammeh was president, reported in a statement to CNN the allegations of rape had “no iota of truth of the matter.”
CNN also spoke with the party’s Uk spokesman, who famous that Jammeh remains the party chief and that the bash normally speaks on his behalf. He reported they have been in get hold of with Jammeh’s group and the previous president will not be earning a remark on this subject.
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Human Legal rights Watch and Demo Global explained they experienced interviewed three gals who recounted suffering rape and sexual assault at the hands of Jammeh, and a fourth woman who claimed the president’s staff members attempted to lure her with him, but she was not assaulted.
Human Legal rights Look at explained the women they interviewed alleged that the previous president “compelled or coerced young girls into acquiring sex with him. Some were being place on the state payroll and worked at Point out Residence as so-identified as ‘protocol girls,’” who ended up supplied money and gifts, and promised scholarships and other privileges.
Witnesses, who had been not named, also instructed Human Rights Enjoy investigators that “both consensual and non-consensual sex took spot at the president’s residences.”
In his reaction to the allegations, Jatta, the APRC’s Deputy chief reported: “APRC is completely unhappy to have been, as soon as once more, confronted with malicious allegations towards its occasion chief and the ex-President of The Republic of The Gambia.”
Jatta stated the allegations hailed from “Western businesses that have been and will continue to guide smear campaigns to tarnish the superior track record of Gambia’s famous and visionary leader,” including that the social gathering and the “Gambian people are worn out of the steady stream of unfounded allegations that have been claimed versus our ex-President.”

A person of the president’s alleged victims is talking out publicly. HRW interviewed Fatou Jallow, who also spoke to the New York Periods and the Guardian. She alleged that Jammeh raped her in June 2015, at what was billed as a spiritual occasion to mark the start out of Ramadan, when she was 18. The other two alleged rape victims questioned to continue to be anonymous, in accordance to HRW.
CNN does not commonly name rape victims, but Jallow has come forward in global media, telling the New York Instances that it is crucial to inform her story publicly, even with fears of bringing shame to her family members, since, “in the close the silence is as unpleasant and more harming than the consequences of talking.”
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Jallow, also recognized as Toufah, reported she very first came into contact with the then-president after she appeared in a beauty contest run by Gambia’s Ministry of Education in 2014. She reported she was inevitably invited to go to him — in his personal residence — to examine the drama undertaking she experienced submitted all through the pageant.
He gave her presents and set up operating drinking water at her family’s residence, Jallow explained to HRW interviewers. But Jammeh’s mindset towards her improved right after she turned down his advancements, which provided a marriage proposal, she said.
Jallow claimed that for the duration of a go to to the Condition Residence to mark Ramadan, she located herself alone with Jammeh.
“He advised me, ‘No female has at any time rejected me. And who do you feel you are?’” she instructed HRW. “He stated, ‘No female rejects me. You imagine you can get away with it?’”

She instructed interviewers that she screamed, and he slapped her, instructed her to shut up, and then injected her in her arm with a needle, just before raping her.
She said she shed consciousness and when she came all over some time afterwards, the president produced her get her out of the making.
As she was leaving, she claimed an aide instructed her: “He is the president, and we will do anything to shield him.”
Gambia has set up a Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission to look into alleged abuses dedicated all through Jammeh’s 22 years in electrical power. According to HRW, Jallow is anticipated to testify later on this yr.