In Thiès, an area less than 100 kilometers from the capital of Dakar, residents of the House of Arrest and Correction have started an indefinite hunger strike.
They are calling on Justice Minister Ismaïla Madior Fall to voice their demands.
What they want is that the conditions of detention, which are so far "difficult", be reviewed. They say that these abuses prevail since the arrival of a new head of court. The detainees demand the "immediate arrival" of the Minister of Justice and the (...)

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In Thiès, an area less than 100 kilometers from the capital of Dakar, residents of the House of Arrest and Correction have started an indefinite hunger strike.

They are calling on Justice Minister Ismaïla Madior Fall to voice their demands.

What they want is that the conditions of detention, which are so far "difficult", be reviewed. They say that these abuses prevail since the arrival of a new head of court.
The detainees demand the "immediate arrival" of the Minister of Justice and the Public Prosecutor of the Thies region.

It was this Monday that they began their hunger strike, until their demands were met. They accuse new court chief Makhtar Faye of having reduced their benefits. They would like the latter to be changed to another with more pity for them.

The residents of MAC Thiès also claim cigarettes.

The Asred denounces the "non-respect of prisoners’ rights"

In the face of this mood movement, the Association for the Support and Social Reintegration of Prisoners (Asred) complains that there is a "disrespect for the rights of prisoners".

According to the president of the association, Ibrahima Sall, who spoke on a private radio, the detainees are victims of "inhuman treatment every day". He informs that the prisoners will "maintain their movement of mood until the improvement of their prison conditions".

"There is the excessive and amoral treatment inflicted on them, the unprecedented abuse they suffer from the new head of the prison court, the keeping in prison of prisoners acquitted after judgment before the Criminal Chamber of Thies, only because the public prosecutor made an appeal. There are parcels from their families, which are now very limited. The hearty meals brought by the families are diverted and used by some prison guards who use all their powers to abuse prisoners in the Thies prison. But also the untimely searches of the elements of the gendarmerie with their dogs and which are done with excessive cruelty, violating their dignity. And after these searches, some detainees lose their property. These detainees regret the departure of the commander Boubacar Diatta who was a father for them "he informs.