The country’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) says it will resume public hearings on June 8. 

The commission says it “will pick up from where it stopped, with witnesses expected to testify on road attacks by Jammeh’s motorcade and conditions at Gambia’s prisons.”

Public hearings were suspended in March after President Barrow declared a state of emergency in response to the coronavirus pandemic. 

The Commission says it’s making changes to the public hearings “to accommodate social distancing and other precautionary measures. 

“It is also anticipated that only a few family members or close relatives of witnesses will be allowed in the hall, in addition to essential TRRC support staff including interpreters, sound engineers, psychosocial and medical support workers, security officers and media personnel.”

The TRRC was set up by the Coalition government in 2017 to investigate human rights abuses by the Jammeh dictatorship from 1995 to 2016.