Mutinous soldiers in Niger announced Monday that they The deposed president, Mohamed Bazoum, will be triedby “high treason” for their exchanges with foreign heads of state and international organizations, and undermining state security, hours after saying they were open to dialogue with West African countries to resolve the growing regional crisis.
If convicted, Bazoum could be sentenced to death penaltyaccording to the Nigerian penal code.
In his announcement Sunday night on state television, spokesman and Major General Amadou Abdramane It said the military regime has “gathered the necessary evidence to prosecute before competent domestic and national authorities the deposed president and his local and foreign accomplices for high treason and for undermining the internal and external security of Niger.”
According to the announcement, high-level West African politicians and “their international mentors” have made false claims and threatened to derail a peaceful solution to the crisis to justify a military intervention. The board indicated that Bazoum was accused after your conversations with those people. The statement did not identify specific Western countries or set a date for the trial.
Bazoum, the country’s democratically elected president, was overthrown by members of his presidential guard on July 26 and has been under house arrest with his wife and son at the presidential compound in the capital, Niamey.