Simone Gbagbo Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/simone-gbagbo/ The low down on African affairs Mon, 09 Mar 2015 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Simone Gbagbo Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/simone-gbagbo/ 32 32 Ivorean Iron Lady jailed https://jjcornish.com/2015/03/ivorean-iron-lady-jailed/ Mon, 09 Mar 2015 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2015/03/ivorean-iron-lady-jailed/ Simone Gbagbo, the wife of defeated Ivory Coast President Laurent been jailed for 20 years. She’s been found guilty in Abidjan of undermining state security in the aftermath of 2010 elections when her husband refused to acknowledge defeat. Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo is in The Hague awaiting trial at the International Criminal Court. The […]

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]]> Simone Gbagbo, the wife of defeated Ivory Coast President Laurent been jailed for 20 years.

She’s been found guilty in Abidjan of undermining state security in the aftermath of 2010 elections when her husband refused to acknowledge defeat.

Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo is in The Hague awaiting trial at the International Criminal Court.

The ICC wanted to put his wife Simone in the there dock too, but Ivorean authorities refused – preferring to try her themselves.

More than 3 000 people died in the violence that followed President Alassane Ouattara’s victory.

Simone who’d been dubbed the Iron Lady is found guilty of disturbing public order and organising armed gangs.

Her sentence is twice as long as prosecutors asked for.

Her lawyer says they’ll appeal.

 

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