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Henry Okah Loses Bid To Challenge Conviction In South Africa

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Henry Okah, the leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, has lost his bid to challenge his conviction in South Africa for two separate bombing incidents that occurred in Warri and Abuja in 2010.

In November 2017, Okah challenged the trial and conviction at the South African Constitutional Court, in a last-ditch attempt to walk away as a free man.

According to him, it was not fair, based on the dictates of the South African Criminal Procedures Act.

But in a unanimous judgment on the two cases on Thursday, February 22, 2018, Edwin Cameron, a justice of the court, ruled that the trial under the Anti-terrorism Act of South Africa was in line with the country’s international obligations.

Okah was convicted and sentenced to 24 years in 2013 on 13 counts of terrorism, including engaging in terrorist activities, conspiracy to engage in terrorist activities, and delivering, placing, and detonating an explosive device in 2010.

On appeal, the sentence was later reduced to 20-years in 2016.

 Read more at PMNews

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