Issa Sarr spoke as he was waiting to collect his brother’s body at a morgue in Dakar. Minutes later, another family loaded the coffin of a man killed in the demonstrations on the roof of a hearse. The bullet punctured his right lung and came out of his arm, according to an autopsy report. In recent years, demonstrations against Mr. Sall have grown more violent, political opponents have been jailed, journalists arrested and news organizations suspended. But the police response was more violent this year, according to human rights organizations.

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Persons: Issa Sarr, Sarr, Seyni, Elhadji, exceptionalism, Sonko’s Locations: Dakar, Canada, Senegal, France