A South African court Friday postponed by a month, the sentencing of Henry Okah, the alleged leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, who had earlier been convicted of 13 terrorism charges, including the 2010 Independence Day bombings in Abuja.
"I will postpone this matter for purposes of hearing arguments in mitigation or aggravation for sentencing. That's the final postponement," high court judge, Neels Claassen said.
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