Niger: Ousted President Bazoum to file legal case against coup plotters

The lawyers for Mohamed Bazoum, who was overthrown on July 26 and has since been detained, also said in a statement they were appealing to the UN Human Rights Council.

It constitutes a civil action and alleges “attack and conspiracy against state authority, crimes and offenses committed by civil servants and arbitrary arrests and confinements.” The lawyers also said they were appealing to two bodies of the UN Human Rights Council including its working group on arbitrary detention.

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