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Prosecutors Charge 11 in Ivory Coast Election Violence
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Eleven PPA-CI activists, Laurent Gbagbo's party, have been charged with acts of "terrorist acts" and "conspiracy against the authority of the State", or "participation in an insurrectional movement", according to the prosecutor of the Republic. Justice accuses them of being at the origin of the violence that occurred in the municipality of Yopougon on the night of 1 August.
PCA-CI members denounced "an operation of intimidation and repression" and "judicial and political harassment" with the arrest of two of its executives, less than three months from the presidential election.
Prosecutors charge 11 in Ivory Coast election violence
Prosecutors in Ivory Coast have charged eleven individuals, including prominent opposition members, with alleged terrorist offences linked to early August unrest. Authorities say the charges stem from an August 1 attack in an Abidjan suburb, where a bus was torched and a police car ambushed. Prosecutor Oumar Braman Kone described “a horde of hooded individuals armed with machetes, clubs, firearms, and incendiary cocktails” in the assault. An inv…
Two senior officials of the PPA-CI, Moïse Lida Kouassi and Koné Boubacar, are in custody in Abidjan. Their party denounces judicial harassment and demands their release, two months before the Ivorian presidential elections.
While some 10 opposition members have already been summoned by the courts following the incidents in Yopougon on 1 and 2 August, two other cadres of Laurent Gbagbo's party were also arrested on 8 August in connection with this case.
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