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| ICC judges ordered to review Laurent Gbagbo's detention |
| 2017-07-20 |
| [Al Jazeera] International Criminal Court (ICC) appeals judges have ordered a review into whether Laurent Gbagbo ... Former President-for-Life of Ivory Coast from 2000 to 2011. Laurent lost to Alassane Ouattara in 2010 but his representtive tore up the results on the teevee and he refused to vacate the presidential palace. French troops assisted the Oattara forces in extricating him from his Fuhrerbunker... , the former Ivory Coast president, should be released from detention while his long-running trial continues on crimes-against-humanity charges. Presiding Judge Piotr Hofmanski on Wednesday struck down a decision by trial judges denying the 72-year-old Gbagbo interim release. Gbagbo has been in The Hague-based ICC's detention unit since late 2011 and will remain incarcerated Please don't kill me! pending the review. Both Gbagbo and his former militia leader Charles Ble Goude, 45, have pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." to four charges of crimes against humanity including murder, rape, and persecution in five months of bloodshed that wracked the Ivory Coast. About 3,000 people died in the violence. |
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