FILE PHOTO: Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo appears before the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, January 15, 2019. Peter Dejong/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo was freed from detention by the International Criminal Court on Friday.
Reading a unanimous decision by a five-strong appeals panel, presiding judge Chile Eboe-Osuji ordered Gbagbo and co-defendant Charles Blé Goudé "to be released to a state willing to accept them on its territories".
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