Senegal UPDATE:  Jailed opposition activist receives presidential pardon (
http://www.mediafound.org)

Malick Noel Seck, an opposition youth activist in Senegal, was  on January
11, 2012 given a presidential pardon, three months after his conviction
on two counts of “contempt of court” and “insulting” President Abdoulaye
Wade.

Seck was jailed for two years on October 20, 2011 over a protest letter he
wrote to the country’s Constitutional Court asking it to reject the third
term candidacy of the incumbent, President Abdoulaye Wade, for the 2012
presidential election.

The Media Foundation for West Africa’s (MFWA) correspondent in Senegal
reported that Seck, General Secretary for Socialist Convergence, a youth
movement linked to the Senegalese Socialist party, served his sentence at
the Tambacounda Prison in the south of Senegal.

Before the pardon, in the first week of January 2012, an Appeal Court in
Dakar had reduced Seck’s sentence to a one year, four months of which were
to be mandatory.

Seck reportedly denounced the long silence of the Constitutional Court over
attempts by President Wade to contest next month’s election after serving
his second term in office.

According to the correspondent, during his trial in October 2011, Seck told
the court that the letter he wrote was to sensitize the Constitutional
Court and the Senegalese people on the immorality of President Wade’s
candidacy.

“When we take to the streets, we will come in bigger numbers for you to
account for your actions. Life is expensive, and so is death. Facing up to
the situation requires dignity. No one will say we did not give you the
opportunity to face up to us,”   the protest letter that Seck wrote to
members of the Constitutional Court said.

Courtesy of http://www.mediafound.org

Thanks

Demba
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