Hawa Sisay-Sabally

Hawa Sisay-Sabally ( Hawa Kuro Sisay Sabally , *?) Is a Gambian lawyer and politician.

Life

Sisay-Sabally is the daughter of Sheriff S. Sisay (d. 1989), Gambian Minister of Finance and Trade.

She was under President Yahya Jammeh as Minister of Justice and Attorney General ( English Attorney General and Secretary of State for Justice ) of the Republic of The Gambia in April 1996, the Cabinet was appointed. She was the successor to Musa N. Bittaye . Sisay-Sabally was in office until July 31, 1998 and was replaced by Fatou Bensouda .

In 2001, she represented her husband, Ousman Sabally, a teacher at St. Augustine's Senior Secondary School , in a lawsuit against state security officials for assault.

Hawa Sisay-Sabally became Vice President of the Female Lawyers Association in The Gambia (FLAG), a non-governmental organization that was founded in 2007 to support the lobbying work for equality between women and men in the Gambia through legislative reforms.

In 2017/18, she represented the Gambia Press Union (GPU) in a successful lawsuit before the Supreme Court against a law to prevent false information on the Internet, which was primarily intended to intimidate government critics.

Since 2018 she has been Deputy Chairwoman of the 11-person Constitutional Review Commission (CRC), which is supposed to draft changes to the Gambian constitution . Her swearing-in ceremony took place on June 4, 2018.

Works

• Inheritance in the Gambia. In Akua Kuenyehia (Ed.): Women and Law in West Africa: Situational Analysis of Some Key Issues Affecting Women. Legon 1998

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CRC newsletter. Retrieved September 11, 2019 . 
2. ^ David Perfect: Historical Dictionary of The Gambia . Rowman & Littlefield, 2016, ISBN 978-1-4422-6526-4 ( google.de [accessed December 23, 2018]).
3. ↑ Political scene: Colonel Jammeh unceremoniously sacks justice minister  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dated December 1, 1998  
4. ↑ Gambia: New Twist in Ousman Sabally Vs. State. June 12, 2001. Retrieved December 23, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Gambia: VP Njie-Saidy Launches FLAG ( Memento of September 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) of February 28, 2007
6. ↑ Michael Malakata: Gambian court rules against law on false publication on the Net. Retrieved December 23, 2018 (UK English). 
7. ↑ Gambia: Constitutional Review Commissioners Sworn-in. Retrieved June 5, 2019 .