Deposed Niger president’s lawyers deny escape bid
3 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)
Lawyers for Niger's ousted president on Friday rejected claims by the new military rulers that he had tried to escape, as France said its forces would be gone from the West African country by year's end as planned.
