Gambia charges former spy chief with murder of opposition leader
The charges were part of attempts by President Adama Barrow to re-establish democracy in the small West African nation.
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Yankuba Badjie and the Director of Operations, Sheikh Jeng, along with eight other officers were charged.
Barrow had released dozens of opposition activists from prison since he took office on Jan. 19, replacing Yahya Jammeh, who ruled the Islamic republic for the last 22 years with an iron fist.
Jammeh caused weeks of political impasse by refusing to accept the result of the December presidential election before going into exile in Equatorial Guinea.
Badjie took over at the intelligence agency in 2013, with Jeng as his deputy.
During their tenure, the intelligence agency carried out kidnappings, arbitrary arrests, torture, killings and rape, according to international human rights activists.
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