Ndéye Sow Leila Receives a Heavy Sentence After Remarks About Imams

Dakar’s flagrante delicto court sentenced Ndéye Sow Leila to six months in prison, with one month to be served, and fined her 500,000 CFA francs. She was prosecuted for insulting a group of people through a computer system and for speech contrary to public decency after remarks on Sen TV targeting members of the “And Samm Jikko Yi” movement. Prosecutors had sought six months, including three months in prison, while the defense argued she was responding to political opponents and asked for her acquittal.