Zambian Court Frees 54 Held Over Treason

Author:
Tania Page
Publisher:
Al Jazeera
Publication Date:
29 November 2013
Tags:
Zambia, Legal and Judicial Affairs

A court in Zambia has freed 54 separatists who were facing charges of treason for trying to create a new state called Barotseland in the west of the country. The secessionist bid dates back decades. In January 2012 police broke up a secessionist meeting with live fire, igniting riots that left two people dead in the province's largest town of Mongu and rekindled the secessionist movement. Al Jazeera's Tania Page reports from Lusaka.

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