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Senegal - OPCAT Situation

Updated 08.05.2013

Senegal ratified the OPCAT in 2006 and established a new institution as NPM in 2009 through a specific legislation: the National Observer of Places of Deprivation of Liberty. The Senegalese NPM legislation is inspired by the French legislation creating the General Controller of Places of Deprivation of Liberty.
Two years later, the implementing degree of the NPM legislation was approved by the Council of Ministers and it is only in 2012 that the National Observer was appointed. A Secretary General of the institution was recruited the same year and the Senegalese NPM is starting its operations.

The Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture will carry out a “NPM advisory visit” to Senegal in 2012.

The SPT member Fortuné Gaetan Zongo is the SPT Focal Point for Senegal.

Opcat status
OPCAT Ratification October 18, 2006
UNCAT Ratification August 21, 1986
NPM Designated

National Observer of Places of Deprivation of Liberty

NPM Type

New Specialised Institution

NPM Legal Framework

NPM law n°2009-08 (02 March 2009)

Information
Population 11 987 121
Area (sq km) 196 190
Number of prisons 38
Prison population 5360
Quick links

SPT Advisory Visit on NPM: Press release (December 2012).

Communication to the SPT: Official correspondence from Senegal (24 February 2009)

UPR: Report of the Working Group (March 2009)

UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention: Report (March 2010)