Niger Republic’s highest court has lifted the immunity on
the country’s overgrown President, Mohammed Bazoum.
This is coming about one year after Bazoum, a democratically
elected civilian President, was overthrown by mutinous soldiers.
Speaking on Friday, Bazoum’s lawyer, Reed Brody, said the
court ruling has opened the door for the military junta to prosecute him for
alleged high treason.
Bazoum and his family have been under house arrest since he
was ousted in the military coup.
The junta authorities said they plan to prosecute him for
“high treason” and for undermining national security, and earlier this year
initiated legal proceedings to lift his immunity in a newly created State
Court, which became the country’s highest judicial authority.
Before Bazoum was forcibly removed from power, Niger
Republic was the West’s last major security partner in the Sahel, the vast
region south of the Sahara Desert that Islamic extremist groups have turned
into a global terror hot spot.
Late last year, the highest court of the West African
regional bloc, ECOWAS, ruled that Bazoum and his family were arbitrarily
detained and called for him to be restored to office.
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