{"id":95994,"date":"2020-10-09T15:26:14","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T07:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=95994"},"modified":"2020-10-09T15:26:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T07:26:15","slug":"mali-release-of-12-personalities-arrested-during-coup-detat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=95994","title":{"rendered":"Mali: Release of 12 personalities arrested during coup d\u2019\u00e9tat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><img src=\"https:\/\/s.rfi.fr\/media\/display\/117ab83c-d117-11ea-a375-005056bff430\/w:310\/p:16x9\/000_1vx16h_0.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Malian Prime Minister Boubou Ciss\u00e9 in March 2020 in Bamako <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BAMAKO, Oct 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The military who seized power on Aug 18 in Mali before embarking on a transition supposed to bring civilians back to power announced the release of the 12 civilian and military personalities arrested in their coup d\u2019\u00e9tat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first to return home was Boubou Ciss\u00e9, the former Prime Minister of Mali. He was quite well, according to one witness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another civilian, Moussa Timbin\u00e9, a former speaker of the National Assembly was released and reportedly returned home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the military side, among the ten high-ranking officers who regained their freedom were the former Ministers of Security and Defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are now all free to move. But an official communiqu\u00e9 specifies that, for all practical purposes, they remain at the disposal of justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since these extra-judicial arrests, more and more voices, including those of human rights associations, have been raised to demand their release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) had also urged the junta to release the detained persons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ghana\u2019s Head of State, Nana Akufo-Addo, the current president of the sub-regional institution, is expected this week in Bamako. He is expected, among other things, to congratulate the local authorities on these releases. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Malian Prime Minister Boubou Ciss\u00e9 in March 2020 in Bamako BAMAKO, Oct 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The military who seized power on Aug 18 in Mali before embarking on a transition supposed to bring civilians back to power announced the release of the 12 civilian and military personalities arrested in their coup d\u2019\u00e9tat. The first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":95996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95994"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/95996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}