International Criminal Court (ICC) judges have ordered the immediate release of former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo after rejecting a prosecution appeal to keep him in detention pending an appeal against his acquittal.
By majority--Judge Herrera Carbuccia dissenting--the trial chamber rejected all reasons given by the prosecution in its appeal and ordered the immediate release of the 73-year-old former head of state and his former cabinet minister Charles Blé Goudé. Gbagbo was handed over to the ICC on November 30, 2011, and Blé Goudé was handed over on March 22, 2014. The duo has been on trial at the court based in The Hague since January 2016.
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