Fatou Bensouda played a central role in the early years of the Gambian Yahya Jammeh putschist regime, being chosen as his legal adviser after his 1994 putsch, before becoming his Minister in 1998 and ""being sacked"" in 2000. Jammeh's rule has been recurrently denounced for its disrespect of human rights, being considered as one of the ""worst dictatorships in the world"".