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The wife of Suriname’s ex-president Desi Bouterse, Ingrid Bouterse (C), says he will not report to prison as ordered
Suriname's former president Desi Bouterse will not report to jail, his wife said on Friday, after he was asked by prosecutors to turn himself in to serve his sentence for involvement in the murder of 15 activists more than 40 years ago. A three-judge panel in December affirmed the convictions of Bouterse and four others in the 1982 execution of the government critics, including lawyers, journalists, union leaders, soldiers and university professors. "He's not going to turn himself in," the former president's wife, Ingrid Bouterse-Waldring, told journalists near their...
PARAMARIBO, Suriname, CMC – The wife of former president of Suriname, Desi Bouterse, who has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for his involvement in the killing of 15 people more than four decades ago, says he will not be reporting to jail...
Former Suriname dictator Desi Bouterse, recently sentenced to 20 years for the killings of 15 political opponents, has disappeared after failing to surrender to authorities.
Suriname's ex-president Desi Bouterse, 78, on Friday refused to turn up to start serving a 20-year prison sentence for the murder of political opponents more than four decades ago.In 1999, a court in the Netherlands, Suriname's former colonial ruler, sentenced Bouterse to 11 years in prison in absentia for cocaine smuggling, another charge he denies.