The International Federation of Human Rights, a Dakar-based...

The International Federation of Human Rights, a Dakar-based human rights organisation, urged the Senegalese government to reprieve Diagne, sentenced to death on 22 September for "armed robbery and violence leading to the death of a man," and abolish the death penalty once and for all. Its president, Sidiki Kaba, said: "The death penalty is an assault on the right to life, legal assassination by the state, which goes against all the advances of international law."