{"id":145412,"date":"2019-08-21T06:01:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T05:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=145412"},"modified":"2019-08-21T06:02:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T05:02:26","slug":"cameroon-separatist-leaders-bag-life-imprisonment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=145412","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon: Separatist leaders bag life imprisonment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Cameroon-Separatist-Leaders-Jailed-For-Life.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ten Cameroonians abducted from a hotel in Abuja in February 2018 by the Department of State Services and deported to Cameroon, have been given life sentences by a military court in the French-speaking West African country. <\/p>\n<p>The men, who were leaders of the move to declare the North-Western and South-Western regions of the Central African state as the Republic of Ambazonia, were found guilty on all counts. <\/p>\n<p>Some of the secessionist leaders behind bars have Nigerian passports and their councils have said they will appeal the judgment. <\/p>\n<p>The men were convicted on charges of secession, hostility to the state, complicity in acts of terrorism, financing acts of terrorism, revolution, insurrection, propagation of false information.<br \/>\n<span class=\"ds-1col block-story-object block-story-object-link block-story-object-link-story\" about=\"\/2018\/01\/29\/nigerian-govt-deports-cameroonian-separatist-leaders\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-content-body\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"node node-story node-promoted node-sticky taxonomy-sahara-reporters view-mode-embedded_link block-module block-module-small block-module-story\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-module-image block-module-image-scale-to-fit\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><span class=\"image-background-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1566347098_827_Cameroon-Separatist-Leaders-Jailed-For-Life.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" alt=\"\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Julius Tabe, who was until his arrest known as \u201cPresident of the Interim Government of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia (Southern Cameroons)\u201d and nine others, were ordered to pay for damages.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten Cameroonians abducted from a hotel in Abuja in February 2018 by the Department of State Services and deported to Cameroon, have been given life sentences by a military court in the French-speaking West African country. 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