Lawyers for Niger’s ousted president say they are filing a legal case in the West African country against those behind the coup that deposed the democratically elected leader.
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 United Nations Human Rights Council.
The complaint, obtained my newsmen on Monday, is aimed at new strongman General Abdourahamane Tiani and “all others”.
It constitutes a civil action and alleges “attack and conspiracy against state authority, crimes and offences committed by civil servants and arbitary arrests and confinements”.
The case is expected to be lodged in the next few days with a court in the capital Niamey, one of the lawyers, Dominique Inchauspe, told journalists.
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