Juan Branco, a French lawyer for Senegalese opposition politician Ousmane Sonko, is in custody in Dakar on terrorism, conspiracy and public order charges, among others, his lawyer told Reuters on Sunday.
He was arrested in Mauritania and extradited to Senegal on Saturday, his lawyer said. Branco is part of the team defending Sonko, who wasSonko was charged with plotting an insurrection, criminal conspiracy and other offences, two months after his trial for rape sparkedSenegalese authorities issued an arrest warrant for Branco last month after he made a surprise appearance at a news conference by Sonko's legal team in Dakar in late July, according to French newspaper Le Monde.
"Juan Branco is for now in the hands of an elite police unit," Senegalese Interior Minister Antoine Felix Abdoulaye Diome said on Sunday.Bamba Cisse, a member of Sonko's legal team, told Reuters that all they were asking was for his rights to be protected. Reporting by Diadie Ba in Dakar, Juliette Jabkhiro and Kate Entringer in Paris, editing by Giles Elgood
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