Generals sent to 30 years in prison over coup
Associates of Burkina Faso’s deposed former president Blaise Compaore have been sentenced to prison for organising a 2015 coup attempt against a transitional government.
Al-Jazeera reports that a military court handed General Gilbert Diendere a 20-year prison term on Monday on charges of murder and harming state security.“This is a victory for the Burkinabe people, a victory for democracy and the rule of law,” said Prosper Farama, a lawyer for people injured in the coup attempt.Fourteen people were killed and more than 300 wounded during the unrest.
Diendere and Bassole were the leading figures in a 19-month trial of 84 people accused of the attempted overthrow of Burkina’s transitional government.
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