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Senegalese lawmakers get 6-month jail term for colleague assault

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Amadou Niang and Massata Samb were ordered to pay more than $8,000 in compensation to fellow MP Amy Ndiaye Gniby.

A court in Senegal has sentenced two lawmakers to six months in jail for assaulting a pregnant colleague on December 1 during an acrimonious parliamentary session that degenerated into a full-blown brawl.

In a ruling on Monday, the Dakar court also ordered the men, Amadou Niang and Massata Samb of the opposition Party for Unity and Rally (PUR) to pay a total of 5 million CFA francs ($8,144) in compensation to lawmaker Amy Ndiaye Gniby of the ruling Benno Bokk Yakaar coalition.

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