{"id":48659,"date":"2023-08-14T07:18:51","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T07:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/niger-s-junta-vows-to-prosecute-ousted-president-for-treason\/"},"modified":"2023-08-14T07:19:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T07:19:46","slug":"niger-s-junta-vows-to-prosecute-ousted-president-for-treason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/niger-s-junta-vows-to-prosecute-ousted-president-for-treason\/","title":{"rendered":"Niger&#8217;s junta vows to prosecute ousted president for treason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bazoum would be prosecuted &#8220;for high treason and undermining the internal and external security of Niger,&#8221; said Col Maj Amadou Abdramane, a member of the country&#8217;s Defense and Security Forces and the National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland (CNSP) that was newly established by soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has imposed sanctions on Niger in response to the recent coup and approved the deployment of a &#8220;standby force to restore constitutional order&#8221; in Niger as soon as possible but remains committed to finding a diplomatic solution to the crisis, with Niger&#8217;s coup leaders denouncing the sanctions as &#8220;illegal, inhumane and humiliating,&#8221; reported local media.<\/p>\n<p>Soldiers in Niger detained Bazoum on July 26 and chose Abdourahamane Tchiani, former leader of the country&#8217;s presidential guard, to lead the CNSP, a governing body established by them after the coup.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-58960\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bazoum_-_.jpg\" alt=\"Soldiers in Niger detained Bazoum on July 26.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Niger&#8217;s junta vowed Sunday to prosecute ousted President Mohamed Bazoum for &#8220;high treason&#8221; and slammed West African leaders for imposing sanctions on the country, reported local media.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000058959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-48659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000058959,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bazoum_-_.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bazoum_-_.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bazoum_-_.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bazoum_-_.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bazoum_-_.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bazoum_-_.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000058959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48659"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=48659"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=48659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}