Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Charge: |
Indecent Conduct and Unnatural Acts (Homosexuality) |
Sentence: |
8 years |
Years Imprisoned: |
1 |
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Year Convicted: |
2009 |
Year Cleared: |
2009 |
U.S. State or Country of Crime: |
Senegal |
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Result: |
Judicially Exonerated Released |
Summary of Case: |
"One of nine co-defendants wrongly convicted of indecent conduct and unnatural acts (homosexuality), even though no one testified to seeing them engaged in such acts. All nine were sentenced to eight years in prison. The conviction of all nine defendants were overturned in April 2009 by Senegal's Court of Appeal based on insufficient evidence." |
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Innocence Proved By: |
Conviction of all nine defendants overturned in April 2009 by Senegal's Court of Appeal based on insufficient evidence. |
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Male |
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Black |
Information Source 1: |
"Senegal gay convictions quashed, BBC News, April 20-2009" |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8008170.stm |
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