Military regime lays out possible charges against Mohamed Bazoum, who was ousted on 26 July
The leaders of Niger’s military coup have said that the country’s deposed president, Mohamed Bazoum, could be charged with “high treason” and undermining state security.
In an announcement on state television on Sunday night, spokesperson Col Maj Amadou Abdramane said the military regime had “gathered the necessary evidence to prosecute before competent national and international authorities the ousted president and his local and foreign accomplices for high treason and for undermining the internal and external security of Niger”.
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