{"id":31632,"date":"2024-08-30T15:07:14","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T12:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=31632"},"modified":"2024-08-30T23:19:09","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T20:19:09","slug":"nigers-bazoum-in-first-hearing-on-charges-of-high-treason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/30\/nigers-bazoum-in-first-hearing-on-charges-of-high-treason\/","title":{"rendered":"Niger&#8217;s Bazoum in First Hearing on Charges of &#8220;High Treason&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Local media in Niger reported on Thursday that former President Mohamed Bazoum was questioned by the gendarmerie in a preliminary investigation after the State Court lifted his immunity to prosecute him for &#8220;high treason.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to local sources, Bazoum was questioned at his place of detention, in the presence of his lawyer, Moussa Koulibaly, and the session lasted about five hours.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Bazoum had refused to be questioned on Tuesday in the absence of his lawyer and insisted on his lawyer&#8217;s presence. Once his lawyer was present, he complied with the investigation.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Sources close to the detained Nigerien president said his responses to the investigators&#8217; questions were &#8220;good.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Bazoum has been under house arrest with his wife and son since being ousted in July 2023. In late June, his immunity was lifted, paving the way for his trial.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Many countries are calling for Bazoum, 64, to be released &#8220;unconditionally.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies Local media in Niger reported on Thursday that former President Mohamed Bazoum was questioned by the gendarmerie in a preliminary investigation after the State Court lifted his immunity to prosecute him for &#8220;high treason.&#8221; According to local sources, Bazoum was questioned at his place of detention, in the presence of his &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31639,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31632\/revisions\/31639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}