Nobel winners demand jailed Niger president Bazoum’s release
2 years ago(FILES) Niger's President Mohamed Bazoum attends a meeting with United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (not seen) at the presidential palace in Niamey on May 2, 2022. - Lawyers for Niger's ousted president Mohamed Bazoum on October 20, 2023 rejected "fabricated" claims by the country's military rulers that he had tried to escape and said he was being "held incommunicado". "We strongly reject these fabricated accusations against President Bazoum," Mohamed Seydou Diagne, coordinator of a lawyers' collective, said in a statement. (Photo by Issouf SANOGO / AFP)
Some 30 people including Nobel Prize-winners Denis Mukwege and Wole Sonyinka on Sunday called for the release of Niger's ex-president Mohamed Bazoum, held captive since a July 2023 coup. …
