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A prominent Burkina Faso lawyer and civil society leader has been jailed on charges of participating in a plot against the country's military rulers, days after he was freed from prison, his team said Friday.
In Burkina Faso, a group of lawyers representing the civil parties in the case of former assassinated leader Thomas Sankara on Friday demanded the execution of arrest warrant against the return ex-leader Blaise Compaore.
Burkina Faso's former president Blaise Compaoré was sentenced in absentia to life in jail over his role in the 1987 murder of the country's revolutionary folk hero Thomas Sankara, a military court ru…
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — A military court in Burkina Faso on Monday started the trial of 14 people including former President Blaise Compaore for the killing of influential leftist leader Thomas Sankara, who was ousted as president by Compaore in a 1987 coup.
Revered among African radicals, Sankara was an army captain aged just 33 when he came to power in a coup in 1983.