Senegalese opponent vows hunger strike as lawyers lambast arrest ...Middle East

DAKAR: Firebrand Senegalese opposition politician Ousmane Sonko said Sunday he had started a hunger strike from custody after being arrested this week, as his lawyers condemned his arrest.Senegal's public prosecutor on Saturday announced seven new charges against the politician -- a vocal critic of President Macky Sall who has faced a string of legal woes he claims are aimed at keeping him out of politics.“In the face of so much hate, lies, oppression, persecution, I have decided to resist”, Sonko wrote, inviting “all political detainees” to join him on the strike.He is scheduled to be interrogated by a judge on Monday.In a press conference on Sunday in the capital Dakar, Sonko's lawyers sai

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