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[https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/03/niger-human-rights-military-coup/ by AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL 18/3/25] | [https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/03/niger-human-rights-military-coup/ by AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL 18/3/25] | ||
Since the coup, former President Mohamed Bazoum and his spouse, Hadiza Mabrouk, have been detained despite a December 2023 ECOWAS Court of Justice ruling that declared their detention arbitrary and called for their release. In June 2024, the former president’s immunity was lifted by the State Court, in a process in which he was denied access to his lawyers. Mohamed Bazoum has been charged with “high treason” and “plotting with the purpose of threatening state security or the authority of the state”, while no charges have been brought against Hadiza Mabrouk. Seven former cabinet ministers, charged with “infringing on national defence” before military courts, remain arbitrarily detained, despite judicial orders calling for the release of some of them. | Since the coup, former President Mohamed Bazoum and his spouse, Hadiza Mabrouk, have been detained despite a December 2023 ECOWAS Court of Justice ruling that declared their detention arbitrary and called for their release. In June 2024, the former president’s immunity was lifted by the State Court, in a process in which he was denied access to his lawyers. Mohamed Bazoum has been charged with “high treason” and “plotting with the purpose of threatening state security or the authority of the state”, while no charges have been brought against Hadiza Mabrouk. Seven former cabinet ministers, charged with “infringing on national defence” before military courts, remain arbitrarily detained, despite judicial orders calling for the release of some of them. | ||
=====Military courts: The front line of Uganda’s war on dissent===== | |||
[https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/04/military-courts-the-front-line-of-ugandas-war-on-dissent/ by AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL 18/3/25] | |||
On November 16, 2024, opposition politician Kizza Besigye and his aide Obeid Lutale were abducted in Nairobi, Kenya. Four days later, they resurfaced in Uganda’s capital Kampala arraigned in a military court on security charges. Rendered to Uganda, in clear violation of international laws prohibiting extraordinary rendition and due process, the two civilians faced military justice. | |||
