Senegalese police said on Friday that they had arrested Gen. Bora Colley, the man who ran Gambia’s prisons, where human rights groups claimed perceived opponents were tortured and in some cases died.
Colley was made the director of prisons by Gambia’s former leader, Yahya Jammeh, who lost an election last month but refused to step down.
Jammeh fled into exile in Equatorial Guinea last week as a West African regional military force moved to remove him, Reuters reported.
Senegal surrounds tiny Gambia on three sides, and it spearheaded the operation to install opposition figure Adama Barrow, the election winner. Its police reinforced border checks following Jammeh’s departure.
“These checks led to, among other results, the arrest on January 25, 2017, of Gambian Gen. Bora Colley by police at the border checkpoint in Mpack as he attempted to enter Guinea-Bissau,” Reuters quoted the police as saying in a statement.
Colley was later handed over to Senegalese military authorities, it said.
Neither Colley nor any of his associates could be reached for comment.
Jammeh seized power in a 1994 coup and ruled Gambia for 22 years.
His regime grew increasingly brutal and his election defeat, which he initially acknowledged before a dramatic reversal a week later, was celebrated across the country.
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