Seydi Ba estimated that police custody significantly infringed upon freedoms and that it could serve an authoritarian power when it was, in his view, misused. He asserted that a person could only contest it if they were being prosecuted and that there was no effective recourse when the measure ended without follow-up. He added that a police officer could, in his opinion, keep someone in custody for two days without a lawyer or doctor, and then repeat this the following week. Seydi Ba compared this situation to a lettre de cachet without the prestige of royalty. #libertés #justice #droitsdelhomme (translated)





