The Gambia’s President Adama Barrow has provoked outrage in his country for recently pardoning seven serious offenders, including death row inmates, as part of a group of 37 pardoned prisoners. Two of the seven were serving death sentences for murder and rape, respectively. The other five were sentenced to between 20 years and life in jail for rape. Four of their five victims were minors.
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