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Congo Brazzaville’s Jailed Opposition Leader, Jean-Marie Mokoko Back from Treatment

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Last updated: 2020/08/31 at 4:22 PM
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Congo’s opposition leader Jean-Marie Michel Mokoko, is finally hale and hearty as he returns to Brazzaville after spending one month in the hospital for treatment.

The 73-year-old general, who contested against President Denis Sassou Nguesso in the 2016 polls, was imprisoned for 20 years in 2019 on charges for compromising national security and unlawful possession of arms and ammunition.

On July 2, Mokoko was first admitted to a military hospital in Congo due to overall fatigue and loss of appetite. The authorities then allowed him to fly to Ankara on July 30, following weeks of negotiations. A prison source said he would be returned to his cell after being checked by doctors.

Prosecutors had accused Mokoko and several co-defendants of amassing arms as far back as 2005 in the aim of overthrowing Sassou Nguesso’s government. He was arrested later in June 2016 and subsequently tried.

For many of Mokoko’s supporters and observers, the prosecution was an attempt by Sassou Nguesso, who has ruled the central African nation for all but five of the past 38 years, to use the courts to stifle dissent.

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