{"id":97981,"date":"2015-03-10T07:06:39","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T07:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=97981"},"modified":"2015-03-10T07:06:39","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T07:06:39","slug":"ivory-coast-former-first-lady-simone-gbagbo-jailed-20-yrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=97981","title":{"rendered":"Ivory Coast former first lady Simone Gbagbo jailed 20 yrs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former first lady Simone Gbagbo has been sentenced to a 20-year prison term on charges of &#8220;undermining state security&#8221; during post-election violence in 2010-2011 that left nearly 3,000 people dead.<\/p>\n<p>A court in Ivory Coast on Tuesday also accused the wife of former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo of &#8220;disturbing public order.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She was also accused of &#8220;organising armed gangs&#8221; after her husband and his supporters rejected results of December 2010 presidential elections showing rival Alassane Ouattara had won the contest.<\/p>\n<p>The court &#8220;unanimously&#8221; condemned her to 20 years in jail, court president Tahirou Dembele said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Gbagbo&#8217;s son Michel, a French-born dual national from a previous marriage, was also sentenced to five years in prison for his role in the violence.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Laurent Gbagbo himself is facing criminal charges against humanity in the International Criminal Court.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Nana Boakye-Yiadom\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former first lady Simone Gbagbo has been sentenced to a 20-year prison term on charges of &#8220;undermining state security&#8221; during post-election violence in 2010-2011 that left nearly 3,000 people dead. A court in Ivory Coast on Tuesday also accused the wife of former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo of &#8220;disturbing public order.&#8221; She was also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":97983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-97981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}